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ART CRITIC [5 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2023-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
CONT

[He] was encouraged by [an art critic] to abandon his abstract expressionist style characterized by hovering amorphous shapes on the picture plane. He would simplify his composition by using an all-over coverage of thinly applied bright colours inspired by his watercolour sketches.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
CONT

[...] il rencontre [un] influent critique d’art new-yorkais qui l’encourage à abandonner son style expressionniste abstrait, caractérisé par des formes amorphes flottant dans le plan pictural. Bush simplifiera alors sa composition par l’application «all-over» de minces couches de couleurs brillantes inspirées de ses esquisses à l’aquarelle.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
  • Sculpture
OBS

A term devised by the Italian critic Germano Celant in 1967 [to] stress the poverty or unworthiness(i. e. non fine art) of... materials employed [such as coal, sand, earth, wood, stones, twigs, cement, felt, rubber, rope, newspapers. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
  • Sculpture
CONT

Le caractère élémentaire de certains matériaux, choisis en raison même de leur «pauvreté» et de l'activité de ses «compositions», est une des solutions aux exigences fondamentales de l'art pauvre.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • News and Journalism (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Information et journalisme (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 5 1999-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Art History and Theory
  • Painting (Arts)
DEF

A style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements [especially] by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects.

OBS

Term derived from a reference made to ’geometric schemas and cubes’ by the critic Louis Vaucelles in describing paintings exhibited in Paris by Georges Braque in November 1908; it is more generally applied not only to work of the period by Braque and Pablo Picasso but also to a range of art produced in France during the later 1900's, the 1910's and the early 1920's and the variants developed in other countries...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire et théorie de l'art
  • Peinture (Arts)
DEF

École de peintre florissante de 1910-1930, qui se proposait de représenter les objets décomposés en éléments géométriques simples (rappelant le cube) sans restituer leur perspective.

OBS

Le mot cubisme désigne la révolution esthétique qui s'est accomplie, en peinture et aussi en sculpture, de 1907 à 1914 [...]. Le critique Louis Vaucelles reprit ensuite ce mot dans le Gil Blas du 14 novembre 1908, à propos de la première exposition de Braque [...] et lança le terme cubisme. Cependant, les créateurs du mouvement ne l'acceptèrent que malgré eux : «Quand nous avons fait du cubisme, a déclaré Picasso, nous n'avions aucune intention de faire du cubisme».

Spanish

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