Formulation of visual arts criticism in the 1390s in Iran

There are several definitions of "art criticism"; But many scholars consider all kinds of critical writing, including theoretical texts, articles, notes, and reviews of visual art exhibitions that discuss and interpret works of art and their evaluation, as "visual critique." Based on such a definition of criticism, the present article has formatted "Critique of Visual Arts in Persian Language Press" in the 1390s. Research shows that there are four different media streams for publishing reviews, including 1- academic journals 2- specialized journals 3- press and 4- cyberspace. The main purpose of this study is to find the most important features and components of visual critique in each of the above four contexts. This article seeks to answer the question of how visual critiques can be formatted based on structure, form, tone, and other linguistic features. To achieve this goal, structural coding tools have been used as a way to categorize and analyze qualitative data. The statistical population and sample selection were also collected by purposeful sampling method from academic art journals, specialized visual journals, press and online journals. The components are analyzed based on the following three categories: A) Extent of reliance and citation of studied texts on theories of humanities and methods of scientific research B) the importance of the form, structure or style of works of art for criticism; And c) the degree of attention to the views, personality and biography of the artist for art criticism. Based on the results of this study, it can be said that the Release media of critical texts has a significant relationship with the tone, form and structure of these texts, so that academic critics have paid more attention to theories and less attention to the personality or life of the artist. Reviews published in specialized journals focus more on art style. Press reviews are more interested in studying the artist's life and opinions. There are several definitions of "art criticism"; But many scholars consider all kinds of critical writing, including theoretical texts, articles, notes, and reviews of visual art exhibitions that discuss and interpret works of art and their evaluation, as "visual critique." Based on such a definition of criticism, the present article has formatted "Critique of Visual Arts in Persian Language Press" in the 1390s. Research shows that there are four different media streams for publishing reviews, including 1- academic journals 2- specialized journals 3- press and 4- cyberspace. The main purpose of this study is to find the most important features and components of visual critique in each of the above four contexts. This article seeks to answer the question of how visual critiques can be formatted based on structure, form, tone, and other linguistic features. To achieve this goal, structural coding tools have been used as a way to categorize and analyze qualitative data. The statistical population and sample selection were also collected by purposeful sampling method from academic art journals, specialized visual journals, press and online journals.