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☆☆☆☆☆Aesthetic (adj) Concerned with or appreciative of beauty.
To indicate wealth and status
mathematics and science
Western criticism focuses on theory and the philosophy of art.
They both endorsed artists who were being overlooked or mocked at the time and helped make them famous later on.
who is qualified to critique art
when is a work of art truly finished
The question is "What is art?"
And the answer is likely to be subjective, because some forms of symbolic or representational art may not have any apparent meaning to some of its audience. The creation of abstract art, "junkyard sculpture" and more recently the ephemeral "performance art" all stretch the definition beyond its classical roots.
A formal critique will describe why the critic liked or disliked a work of art.
Art critics can make or break the reputation of an artist
The school of thought dedicated to examining the question, "What is art?"
developed the use of abstarction
The Altamira cave paintings
the Andes
