Art critic

An art critic is a grownup who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, together with evaluating art. Their or situation. critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism together with they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogues and on websites. Some of today's art critics use art blogs and other online platforms in formation to connect with a wider audience and expand debate about art.

Differently from art history, there is non an institutionalized training for art critics with only few exceptions; art critics come from different backgrounds and they may or may not be university trained. professionals art critics are expected to clear a keen eye for art and a thorough cognition of art history. Typically the art critic views art at exhibitions, galleries, museums or artists' studios and they can be members of the International connective of Art Critics which has national sections. Very rarely art critics do their well from writing criticism.

The opinions of art critics have 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. Art collectors and patrons often rely on the leadership of such(a) critics as a way to improving their appreciation of the art they are viewing. numerous now-famous and celebrated artists were not recognized by the art critics of their time, often because their art was in a family not yet understood or favored. Conversely, some critics, have become particularly important helping to explain and promote new art movements – Roger Fry with the Post-Impressionist movement, Lawrence Alloway with pop art as examples.

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Portrait of Denis Diderot, 1769, Louvre, Paris. His art criticism was highly influential. His Essais sur la peinture was included by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as "a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too this is the as a blazing torch." Diderot's favorite painter was Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Portrait of John Neal by Sarah Miriam Peale, 1823. Neal is regarded as the number one American art critic and was also an influential writer and literary critic.

Charles Baudelaire 1855, Photo by Nadar. Baudelaire is associated with the Decadent movement. His book of poetry Les Fleurs du mal is acknowledged as a classic of French literature

Édouard Manet, Portrait of Zacharie Astruc 1866, Kunsthalle Bremen. He was a strong defender of Gustave Courbet, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of Édouard Manet. He also defended Claude Monet, James McNeill Whistler, Carolus-Duran, Fantin-Latour, and Alphonse Legros.

Musée d'Orsay. Émile Zola 1840-1902 was an influential French writer, and art critic. He was a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus.

Albert Aurier, c. 1890, Wrote about Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

Paul Signac, Félix Fénéon, 1890. A French anarchist and art critic in Paris during the slow 1800s. He coined the term "Neo-impressionism" in 1886.

Portrait of Clive Bell 1881-1964, by Roger Fry 1924 c.

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880–1918, 1914, French poet, writer and art critic he is credited with coining the word surrealism

André Salmon, Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso in Montparnasse 1916, photographed by Jean Cocteau

Roger Fry Self-portrait, 1928. He was quoted by Kenneth Clark as "incomparably the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin... In so far as taste can be changed by one man, it was changed by Roger Fry".

Leo Stein 1872–1947, art collector/critic, elder brother of Gertrude Stein. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, November 9, 1937

Frank O'Hara 1926-1966, René d'Harnoncourt.

Arthur Danto, 1924-2013, Danto laid the groundwork for an institutional definition of art

John Berger, 1926-2017,