It may not be the art the critic is reviewing but the mood of the critic that determines the review. Many times it’s hard to separate your personal emotions from the emotions that you feel when you’re experiencing a piece of art and therefore a review might be tainted by those feelings. Furthermore affections or disdain for the artists might make your review subject to that bias as well. Health conditions can also affect how someone see’s a particular piece of art for examine can you imagine reviewing a concert with a headache or sinuses. Therefore for a reviewer to be perfectly honest they must take note of their emotional biases and tell those who would read such a review if there is any chance that this might affect their true feelings of this piece of art … (see my next blog)
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