Art Criticism

Art Criticism

male
art movement, Aesthetics, visualarts, patron, criticism, Art critic
Art criticism is the written discussion or evaluation of visual art. Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory...
Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

female, 66 years old
singer-songwriter, World star, Canadian of Scottish descent, cristian rodriguez godoy, cristian rodriguez loves you, rolling stone magazine…visualarts, Visual Artist
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell grew up in Saskatoon,...
Chris Burden

Chris Burden

male, 63 years old
professor, deadman, visualarts, University of California, Los Angeles, California artist, University of California, Irvine
Chris Burden (born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1946) is an American artist. He studied visual arts, physics and architecture at Pomona College and...
Lev Manovich

Lev Manovich

male
University of California, The Language of New Media, visualarts, From Moscow, Electronic literature, mcluhan…Visual Arts Department, Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department
Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. His book "The...
Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

male, deceased (1927)
University of California, San Diego, Fluxus, California Institute Of The Arts, environment, New School for Social Research, assemblagist…visualarts, California Insititute of Arts, California Institute of Arts
Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art...
Hugh Lane

Hugh Lane

male, deceased (1915)
Accidental death, Irish art world figure, modern art, RMS Lusitania, county cork, British art dealer…visualarts
Sir Hugh Percy Lane. Born in County Cork, Ireland, he is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (the first known...
Michael Palmer

Michael Palmer

male, 66 years old
from New York City, Contemporary dance, United States poetry, Visual Artist, visualarts, From San Francisco
Michael Palmer (b.1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with contemporary Dance...
Iain Baxter

Iain Baxter

male, 73 years old (Windsor, Ontario , Canada)
professor, artist, Canadian, University of Windsor, visualarts, Canada Council
Iain Baxter (born November 16 1936) (also known as "Iain Baxter&") is a Canadian photographer, painter, sculptor, installation artist and...
Ernst Gombrich

Ernst Gombrich

male, deceased (2001)
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, University College London, knight, Erasmus Prize winner, visualarts, Vienna University
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 - 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian, who spent most of his working life in...

Jacques Rancière

male, 69 years old
University of Paris, Marxist philosopher, From Algiers, University of Paris VIII Vincennes - Saint-Denis, Marxist philosophy, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure…visualarts
Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when h...