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    An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism...
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    A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater...
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  • Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. He was described in...
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    Harold Foss "Hal" Foster (born August 13, 1955) is an American art critic and historian. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University,...
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    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. A...
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  • Christopher Knight is an American art critic for the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, after being a three-time...
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  • Robert Melville (31 December 1905 - March 1986) was an English art critic and journalist. Along with the artists Conroy Maddox and John Melville (his brother)...
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  • came before it," said art critic Franklin Sirmans in a 2005 essay, "In the Cipher: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Culture". Art critic Rene Ricard wrote in his...
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    the art worlds. The term outsider art was coined in 1972 as the title of a book by art critic Roger Cardinal. It is an English equivalent for art brut...
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  • John Russell CBE (22 January 1919 – 23 August 2008) was an English art critic and journalist. John Russell was born in Fleet, Hampshire, England, in 1919...
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  • – 9 January 2004) was an Indian poet, actor, playwright, editor, and art critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history...
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  • arts dates back to futurist productions and cabarets from the 1910s. Art critic and performance artist John Perreault credits Marjorie Strider with the...
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    Jerry Saltz (category American art critics)
    is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village...
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  • is an American art critic who is known for his writing on politics, economics, and contemporary art, and for his book 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (2013)...
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    Baldwin Ross (25 May 1869 – 5 October 1918) was a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom...
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  • American psychiatrist, writer, and art critic. He is best known for his book Desperate Necessity: Writings on Art and Psychoanalysis, which was illustrated...
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    John Berger (category English art critics)
    January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing...
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  • Peter Solomon Frank (born 1950, New York) is an American art critic, curator, and poet who lives and works in Los Angeles. Frank is known for curating...
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    branching from Impressionism. The term "Pointillism" was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists, but is now...
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    Waldemar Januszczak (category English art critics)
    January 1954) is an Polish - British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same...
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  • September 1992) was an Australian art critic, curator, editor and publisher. In 1981, he founded Art & Text, the contemporary art journal considered to be responsible...
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  • Keeping It Real Art Critics (also known as KIRAC) is a web series on YouTube and Vimeo exploring the international art world. Directed by Stefan Ruitenbeek...
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    and Sicily until his death. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical...
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    1893 – 10 March 1965) was an English artist, writer, broadcaster and art critic. He produced several books in addition to his newspaper and radio work...
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  • Thierry Laurent is a French art critic. He was born in 1959. He has worked variously as an auctioneer, art critic, and teacher. He has written a series...
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    Peter Schjeldahl (category American art critics)
    1942 – October 21, 2022) was an American art critic, poet, and educator. He was noted for being the head art critic at The New Yorker, having earlier written...
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    French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) and British art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900). In Britain, it was influenced by William Morris...
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  • in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein...
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  • David Lee (born 1953) is an outspoken English contemporary art critic—condemning conceptual art in general and the Turner Prize in particular. He publishes...
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    Lina Lazaar (category Tunisian art critics)
    art critic, art curator, and Sotheby's international contemporary art specialist. An activist promoter of Middle Eastern art, she founded Jeddah Art Week...
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