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Davis has written essays on art and culture for Artforum, Artcritical and The Brooklyn Rail. Her topics have included blackness, [ 48 ] feminist imagery, [ 49 ] the artists Robert Reed and Niccolò di Pietro , [ 50 ] [ 51 ] the Dana Schutz painting Open Casket , [ 52 ] and what she termed "Neo-Romanticism" in young artists' work. [ 53 ]
Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906 – July 11, 1978) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. [1] Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. From 1962 until his death, he was the art critic of The New Yorker. [2]
Worringer studied art history in Freiburg, Berlin, and Munich before moving to Bern, where he got his Ph.D. in 1907. [2] His thesis was published the following year under the title Abstraction and Empathy: Essay in the Psychology of Style and remains his best-known work. [2] He taught at Bern University from 1909 to 1914. [2]
Venting through art is the process of using art to attend to and discharge negative emotions. [26] However, research has shown venting to be a less effective method of emotional regulation. Research participants asked to draw either an image related to a sad movie they just watched, or a neutral house, demonstrated less negative mood after the ...
Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. [1] Abstract art, non-figurative art, non-objective art, and non-representational art are all closely related terms. They have similar, but perhaps not identical, meanings.
EEG brain scans showed that while viewing abstract art, non-artists showed less arousal than artists. However, while viewing figurative art, both artists and non-artists had comparable arousal and ability to pay attention and evaluate the art stimuli. This suggests abstract art requires more expertise to appreciate it than does figurative art. [31]
Clement Greenberg (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n b ɜːr ɡ /) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), [1] occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician.
Corey Postiglione (born 1942) is an American artist, art critic and educator. He is a member of the American Abstract Artists in New York, [1] and known for precise, often minimalist work that "both spans and explores the collective passage from modernism to postmodernism" in contemporary art practice and theory. [2]