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  1. Within this profession, there are a number of competencies, including: scientific research of the layer of art or phenomena in art (creating books, articles), working with the works of a museum collection (maintaining documentation, determining the authenticity of works), working in a gallery (identifying the artistic value of works, creating texts for exhibitions, educational activities). Most often, an art critic is well versed in factual material within the framework of his specialization (he knows the biographies of artists, collectors, features of little-known monuments, context, individual manners), and most art historians have a general idea of other phenomena of world art history. Ideally, an art critic should know everything and everything related to art, but the amount of knowledge exceeds the capabilities of human perception, so it is not strange to expect from an art critic who deals, for example, with American abstract expressionism, a deep knowledge of Chinese painting of the 11th and 12th centuries.

  2. The main task of this work is to form the meanings that the audience receives when it comes into contact with an art object.

    The art market is filled with vague and often ephemeral concepts of value. The task of an art critic is to analyze and suggest a format in which the audience will receive a fact cleared of false concepts, see the connection with other objects, artists and history, and then find something that will be important for them.

    • You can't find a perfect and universal art critic. Each of them will draw on their own experience and knowledge. There will definitely be more advanced competencies.
    • An art critic is an intellectual profession. You will need to learn and gain new knowledge on a daily basis. The speed of life is growing and new meanings and connections are emerging.
    • It is not easy to sell the services of an art critic, because there are so many weak professionals.

    The art critic's arsenal includes a large amount of knowledge, analytics, history, and statistics. Based on them, it creates value for the viewer, market professionals, the audience at exhibitions and for collectors.

    Simply put, he is an interpreter and decoder, a historian, partly a marketer and, of course, an expert!

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