criticizing art, chapter one

Chapter one of Criticizing Art was the overture to art criticism and critics of various districts of art. The chapter brought a number of insightful briefs about the point of view of the critics, that they’re the kind of people who point out the flaws of an artist’s work for better or for worse. They make an artist stop dead in his or her tacks by making them see their own work in the most unflattering light, guiding them to meet a different harbinger of their artistic inadequacies. 

the 21st century portraiture

In portraiture the theme is always the face. In fact the word "portrait" means "a pictorial likeness or photograph of a face”. It is also a recording of an individual’s appearance and personality, whether obtained through the lens of a camera, molded by the hands of a sculptor, or captured by a painter’s brush. Exhibited at the Portsmouth Museum of Art, the recent exhibit called iIMAGE: The Uncommon Portrait stretches the bounds of the familiar traditional portraiture and morphs into unexpected interpretations of an unusual breed of portraiture created by new age techniques – including the use of 21^st century technology.