Who is the famous art critic?
Who is the famous art critic? One of the first art critics to develop an individual reputation was La Font de Saint-Yenne who became famous for his entertaining accounts of the French Salon in Paris, from 1737 onwards. He was followed by the French critic Denis Diderot (1713-84), best known as the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedie (1751-72). Why did Plato condemn art? Plato had two theories of art. According to this theory, since art imitates physical things, which in turn imitate the Forms, art is always a copy of a copy, and leads us even further from truth and toward...