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Art criticism includes a descriptive aspect, [3] where the work of art is sufficiently translated into words so as to allow a case to be made. [2] [3] [7] [11] The evaluation of a work of art that follows the description (or is interspersed with it) depends as much on the artist's output as on the experience of the critic.
Arts criticism is the process of describing, analyzing, interpreting, and judging works of art. [1] The disciplines of arts criticism can be defined by the object being considered rather than the methodology (through analysis of its philosophy): buildings (architecture criticism), paintings (visual art criticism), performances (dance criticism, theatre criticism), music (music journalism ...
According to James Elkins [4] there is a distinction between art criticism and art history based on institutional, contextual, and commercial criteria; the history of art criticism is taught in universities, but the practice of art criticism is excluded institutionally from academia.
Often architecture criticism is considered the highest form of aesthetic criticism, because architecture combines art, science and technology to build a pleasing home environment, a "living space" that people must inhabit everyday, more or less permanently. An aesthetic critic however does not simply say "it's beautiful" or "it's ugly."
The variety of artistic movements has resulted in a division of art criticism into different disciplines, which may each use different criteria for their judgements. [80] [82] The most common division in the field of criticism is between historical criticism and evaluation, a form of art history, and contemporary criticism of work by living ...
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The writer and MacArthur Fellow, whom I got to know in the 1980s, awed me with his insistence on how beauty mattered — just not in the way we might think.
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