A.D. Coleman defines criticism as "the intersecting of images and words," adding that "I merely look closely at and into all sort of photographic images and attempt to pinpoint in words what they provoke me to feel and think and understand."
Donald Kuspit sees the critic's task to try and articulate the effects that the work of art induces in us, the very complicated subjective states.
Criticism is seen as the storm cloud over art, the critic decides whats "good" or "bad" yet for most critics its about describing and being open-minded and a chance to write about new works; as Roberta Smith describes: "you get to write about things that haven't been written about yet." A chance to record what one is thinking or feeling.
CRITICIZING CRITICISM (AND CRITICS)
Critics never seem to get along with eachother, theres this act of being superior with one another and feeling superior when looking at art works. Mark Stevens tries to avoid "nastiness" when criticizing art and regrets the times he has been sarcastic in print. He thinks critics should be "honest in their judgment, clear in their writing, straightforward in their argument, and unpretentious in their manner." For him, good criticism is like good conversation - "fresh, direct, personal, incomplete."
The process of writing criticism helps appreciate the artwork more, words are an instrument of thinking. A chance to help view and interpret the art work in different ways. So to wrap up, the critic is seen and described from all points of view. Some feel it is their duty to point out the errors in artworks and to label them good or bad. Others feel that by criticising a piece it helps them experience the artworks in a different way, sometimes the critic has to imgaine being in the shoes of the artist. So there is no definitve definition of what Criticism is, it's a more subjective approach and the process of doing criticism is beneficial to the one who does it.
Description
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Analysis
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Interpretation
(meaning)
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Evaluation
(Judgement)
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