His Essays on Painting include "Everything I've Understood in My Life about Chiaroscuro" and "My Bizarre Ideas About Design."
This critic's ideas were the basis for Michael Fried's opposition of "absorption" and "theatricality," in a book subtitled for this thinker. His Essays on Painting include "Everything I've Understood in My Life about Chiaroscuro" and "My Bizarre Ideas About Design." Much of this thinker's art criticism was structured as letters to Friedrich Grimm. This thinker called the translation from one artistic medium to another a "hieroglyph." He was the main art critic studied in the (*) Goncourt Brother's major books. This thinker introduced the approach of "walking" through a painting in his descriptions of Joseph Vernet's landscapes, and he repeatedly acclaimed Greuze's portraits and Chardin's still-lifes. This thinker more or less founded art criticism in his "observations" of the paintings in the Salon of 1767, and much of his art criticism relies on visual theories he first put forth in Letter on the Blind. This thinker wrote articles like "Beautiful," "Masterpiece," and "Art" for his most famous project. For 10 points, name this art critic whose aesthetic theories also made their way into philosophical dialogues like Rameau's Nephew.
This critic's ideas were the basis for Michael Fried's opposition of "absorption" and "theatricality," in a book subtitled for this thinker.
Denis Diderot 