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An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites. Art collectors and patrons often utilize the advice of art critics as a way to enhance their appreciation of the art they are viewing.

Typically the art critic views art at exhibitions
Art exhibition

Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition"....
, galleries
Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a space for the art exhibition, usually visual art. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, installation art and objects from the applied arts may also be shown....
, museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
s or artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
s' studio
Studio

A studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, photography, graphic design, cinematography, animation, radio or television broadcasting or the making of music....
s.

Professional art critics are expected to have a keen eye for art and a thorough knowledge of art history.






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An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites. Art collectors and patrons often utilize the advice of art critics as a way to enhance their appreciation of the art they are viewing.

Typically the art critic views art at exhibitions
Art exhibition

Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition"....
, galleries
Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a space for the art exhibition, usually visual art. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, installation art and objects from the applied arts may also be shown....
, museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
s or artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
s' studio
Studio

A studio is an artist's or worker's workroom, or an artist and his or her employees who work within that studio. This can be for the purpose of architecture, painting, pottery , sculpture, photography, graphic design, cinematography, animation, radio or television broadcasting or the making of music....
s.

Professional art critics are expected to have a keen eye for art and a thorough knowledge of art history. Knowledge, however, provides no guarantee that a critic will know if a work of art
Work of art

A work of art is a creation, such as an art object, design, architecture piece, musical work, literary composition, performance, film, conceptual art piece, or even computer program that is made and or valued primarily for an "artistic" rather than practical function....
, an exhibition, or an artist will stand out in history as "great".

The opinions of art critics has the potential to stir debate on art related topics. Due to this the viewpoints of art critics writing for art publications and newspapers adds to public discourse concerning art and culture.

Many now famous and celebrated artists were not recognized by the art critics of their time, often because their art was in a style not yet understood or favored. Conversely, some critics, called militant critics
Militant critic

During the modernism period, three types of agents were involved in the process of making a work of art: the artist, the critic and the gallery owner....
 have helped to explain and promote new art movements — Roger Fry
Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry was an England artist and an art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism....
 with the Post-Impressionist movement for example.

Some famous art critics


  • Guillaume Apollinaire
    Guillaume Apollinaire

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  • Andrew Berardini
    Andrew Berardini

    Andrew Berardini is an American art critic and writer. He's published numerous articles and essays in international publications such as Fillip , Artforum , X-TRA , MOUSSE , La Stampa , Paper Monument , Art Review , and Afterall ....
  • Clive Bell
    Clive Bell

    Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an England Art critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group....
  • Charles Baudelaire
    Charles Baudelaire

    Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a nineteenth century French poetry, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic Decadent movement....
  • Clarence Cook
    Clarence Cook

    Clarence Chatham Cook was a 19th century American author and art critic.Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard University in 1849 and worked as a teacher....
  • Félix Fénéon
    Félix Fénéon

    F?lix F?n?on was a France anarchist and art critic in Paris during the late 1800s. He Neologism the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886 to identify a group of artists led by Georges Seurat, which he ardently militant critic....
  • Roger Fry
    Roger Fry

    Roger Eliot Fry was an England artist and an art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism....
  • Clement Greenberg
    Clement Greenberg

    Clement Greenberg was an influential United States art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he militant critic the Abstract Expressionism movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock....
  • Edouard Jaguer
    Edouard Jaguer

    Edouard Jaguer was a French poet and art critic linked with the surrealist movement.He was born on 8 August 1924 in Paris and died on 9 May 2006 in Paris....
  • Hilton Kramer
    Hilton Kramer

    Hilton Kramer is a U.S. art critic and cultural commentator.Kramer was educated at Syracuse University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Indiana University Bloomington and the New School for Social Research....
  • Rosalind Krauss
  • Herbert Read
    Herbert Read

    Attention Urban75! Herbert Read is Firky.Sir Herbert Edward Read, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross was an English anarchism poet, and critic of literature and art....
  • Pierre Restany
    Pierre Restany

    Pierre Restany , was an internationally well known French art critic and cultural philosopher.Restany was born in Am?lie-les-Bains-Palalda and spent his childhood in Casablanca....
  • Barbara Rose
    Barbara Rose

    Barbara Rose is an American art historian and art critic. She was educated at Smith College, Barnard College and Columbia University. She was married to artist Frank Stella between 1961 and 1969....
  • Harold Rosenberg
    Harold Rosenberg

    Harold Rosenberg was an United States writer, educator, philosopher and art criticism. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism....
  • John Ruskin
    John Ruskin

    John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
  • Frank Rutter
    Frank Rutter

    Francis Vane Phipson Rutter was a British art art critic, curator and activist.In 1903, he became art critic for The Sunday Times, a position which he held for the rest of his life....
  • Brian Sewell
    Brian Sewell

    Brian Sewell is an England art critic, motoring expert and media personality. He writes for the London Evening Standard and is noted for artistic conservatism and his acerbic view of the Turner Prize and conceptual art....
  • Rafael Squirru
    Rafael Squirru

    Rafael Squirru , is an Argentina poet, lecturer, art critic and essayist....
  • Michel Tapié
    Michel Tapié

    Michel Tapi? was an internationally active France Art critic, curator, and art collector of art. He was an early and influential Art theory and practitioner of "tachisme", which is generally regarded as the European equivalent of abstract expressionism....
  • Karen Wilkin
    Karen Wilkin

    Karen Wilkin is a New York-based independent curator and critic specializing in 20th century modernism. Educated at Barnard College and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, to Rome....


See also

  • Art criticism
    Art criticism

    Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art.Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty....