Art Criticism

Art Criticism

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

Robert Motherwell

male, deceased (1991)
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 -July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of...
Meyer Schapiro

Meyer Schapiro

male, deceased (1996)
Meyer Schapiro (born: September 23, 1904, in Shavel/Šiauliai, Lithuania; died: March 3, 1996 in New York City) was a 20th century art historian. I...
Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Clark

male, deceased (1983)
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (July 13, 1903 - May 21, 1983) was an English author, museum director,...
Aby Warburg

Aby Warburg

male, deceased (1929)
Aby Moritz Warburg (13 June 1866 - 26 October 1929) was an influential art historian. He was born in Hamburg to the famous Warburg banking family....
Michael Fried

Michael Fried

male, 70 years old
Michael Fried (born 1939, New York City) is an influential Modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard...
Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor

male
Okwui Enwezor is an American educator, writer, and curator specializing in Art history. He lives in New York and San Francisco.
Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett

female, 79 years old
Sister Wendy Beckett (born February 25 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became an...
Kirk Varnedoe

Kirk Varnedoe

male, deceased (2003)
J. Kirk T. Varnedoe was an American art historian and writer, and a noted curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in...
Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt

male, deceased (1897)
Jacob Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland - August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, fields which he helped found....