When covering or promoting an art exhibition, media channels feature the views expressed by art critics. The channels typically want to showcase the most impressive aspects of the works on display. However, electronic media and print media differ in the perspectives they offer to their audiences.
Electronic media: Electronic media offers a variety of perspectives. A television review, for example, would feature the views of many art critics who visit the exhibition. Thus, the television audience gets a variety of perspectives and insights into the works displayed at the exhibition. This variety, backed by an unbiased news agency, provides the best set of broad critical reviews of an art show. However, the audience may not get deep insight into the overall impact and success of the show.
Print media: Print media offers depth of perspective. A magazine or newspaper usually assigns the task of the art review to a noted art critic. The art critic typically has deep knowledge of the subject under review. Art critics associated with a particular magazine or newspaper go into a deep and careful analysis of the strong and weak aspects of the exhibition. They offer opinionated conclusions as to whether the exhibition was effective or not. The audience gets an in-depth critique, backed by the unique knowledge and perspective of the art critic. However, they do not get different views, and are therefore limited to the perspective of one person.
However, in both cases, the critique of an exhibition must consider the impact of the individual art pieces as well as the impact of the thematic structure of the entire exhibition. For example, the critique might conclude that some of the individual art works were of high quality, whereas the overall thematic structure of the exhibition was weak.
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