16/09/2015
An art critic helps viewers perceive and judge artwork by interpreting and making critical judgments about specific works of art. An art critic can be a range of different people including: A newspaper reporter, a scholar writing for professional journals or an artist writing about another artist. Art critics tends to focus more on contemporary or modern art that is from cultures not far from their own.
There are two types of art criticism: Journalistic criticism and Scholarly Art criticism. Journalistic criticism is written for the general public focusing on reviewing art exhibitions in galleries or museums. Whereas scholarly art criticism is written for a more specialised art audience and appears in art journals. A scholar critic may be a college or university professor or a museum curator.
Recent art critics are Jonathon James who is an art critic for the Guardian and Allistair Sooke who works at the Daily Telegraph.
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