Art critic

Discussing art can be a difficult task due to the complexities intertwined with a topic that encompasses many aspects of human life. Art has been defined and redefined throughout history by some of the prominent minds who still influence our thinking today. While conversations about influential topics are necessary in the human condition, we should decipher which philosophers’ points are the closest to accuracy in today’s time period. In our current society, Hume’s perspective on art, however…

came to the Surrealist movement in art, the leader of that movement was more easily identifiable. It was Andre Breton, who also found fame later as a French poet. Yet when one mentioned Surrealism in art, the first name that came to the minds of most art critics and students of art history was that of Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton. This was an ironical state of affairs because Andre Breton and the Surrealists had formally expelled Salvador Dali from their art movement in 1939. They could…

Street Art Versus Museums: The Role of Context in Exhibition The concept of integrating urban life and art has come to play a central role in a movement of artists for whom the city walls act as the canvas to their limitless imaginations. These artists practice street art - the creation of unsanctioned visual art in a public space outside the context of traditional art venues. Since the birth of this art form during the late 1960s in New York, these artists have often been in dissonance with…

Expressive theory of art, while being able to include certain artwork and exclude non-artwork that was problematic for formalism, has difficulties of its own. That is, there seems to be something wrong with arguing that simply because an artist has not felt the emotions expressed in their work their creation is not art. This notion could discount many great creations. For example, suppose there was the most beautiful painting; formally it is perfect, the colours, shape and brush stroke is…

in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous collaborations in art history. After her husband died in 1946, she…

including David. What’s more, Delécluze’s opinion of those artists fresh from David’s studio was so withering as to undermine Crow’s claims that a Davidian training continued to be important almost three decades into the nineteenth century. Like-minded art critics shared Delécluze’s general pessimism about the contemporary representatives of the Davidian tradition. Nonetheless, great differences separated reviewers sometimes shunted together as conservative; the intriguing divisions between them…

Art is influenced by everything around it, it comes as a direct result of the cultural sphere it occurs within. The Italian group of painters known as the Macchiaioli are no different from this rule, during the nineteenth-century they took outside influences to create a new esthetic that reflected their personal ideals. Although how independently this new esthetic came about, and who influenced them directly can varied. Depending on the point of view of the author writing on the Macchiaioli,…

focused on protecting the welfare and health of the American people. Florence Owens Thompson, an unemployed mother without a way to support her children, became an icon of resilience in the face of adversity as a result of Lange’s photograph, with many critics describing this artwork as the ultimate photo of the Great Depression. While Migrant Mother brings focus upon the hardships of migrant farmworkers, Lange’s other photographs feature a variety of minority groups of all genders, religions,…

video games were practically spat upon by those in “high-art” circles. Seen as mindless time killers, barely worth a mention, they were isolated from discussion for the better part of a quarter century. However, as years passed and technology evolved, the medium as a whole evolved with it. Development tools became more accessible to the masses, providing any person with an idea to tell a story that pushes the boundaries of the medium and of art itself. Despite these clear evolutions, there are…

1891 to seek more training. Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts were famous art schools that “taught according to the academic method.” Matisse was taught by all the well known famous artists from these schools. These kinds of schools worked a lot with live models and practicing works of “Old Masters”, for Matisse those would be the works of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne as he was already introduced to their forms of art in Paris. While in Paris in the mid 1890s Matisse began to…