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Art critic   /ɑrt krˈɪtɪk/   Listen
Art critic

noun
1.
A critic of paintings.






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"Art critic" Quotes from Famous Books



... over-conscious art is too popular to-day. The illustrator when he is at work often thinks more of the art critic who may review his book than the readers who are to enjoy it. Purely conventional groups of figures, whether set in a landscape, or against a decorative background, as a rule fail to retain a child's interest. He wants invention and detail, plenty of incident, ...
— Children's Books and Their Illustrators • Gleeson White

... is sometimes a feeling of repugnance at calling an expression beautiful, which is not an expression of the sympathetic. Hence the continual contrast between the point of view of the aesthetician or of the art critic and that of the ordinary person, who cannot succeed in persuading himself that the image of pain and of turpitude can be beautiful, or, at least, can be beautiful with as much right as the pleasing ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce

... follow the literary profession. Notwithstanding the fact that his profligacy went to even greater lengths in the city, he was successful in journalism, and soon earned between seven and eight thousand francs a year as a leader-writer and art critic. His first success was gained in a series of articles in a little newspaper called Le Tambour, in which he fell foul of the accepted canons of art, and hailed Claude Lantier and his companions as the founders of ...
— A Zola Dictionary • J. G. Patterson

... Telegraf, a neutral newspaper, declared that in the devastation of Louvain "a wound that can never be healed" was inflicted "on the whole of civilized humanity." Frank Jewett Mather, the well-known American art critic, bitterly denounced the act as one of wanton destruction, saying that Louvain "contained more beautiful works of art than the Prussian nation has produced ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell



Words linked to "Art critic" :   Roger Fry, fry, critic, Roger Eliot Fry, John Ruskin, Ruskin



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