 Clement
Greenberg |
Clement
Greenberg was a famous American art critic and writer
that played a role in the promotion of the abstract
expressionist art movement and artists like Jackson
Pollock.
Born: 16th of January, 1909
Country: USA
Died: 7th of May, 1994
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- The
essence of Modernism lies, as I see it, in the
use of characteristic methods of a discipline
to criticize the discipline itself, not in order
to subvert it but in order to entrench it more
firmly in its area of competence.
Clement
Greenberg > Modernism,
Discipline,
Art
Criticism
- You
do most of your talking about the works and try
to say why you think Every artist is a law to
himself. There's no method.
Clement
Greenberg > Art
Criticism, Art
Work
- You
like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape
or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't
have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or
painting-forces your eye.
Clement
Greenberg > Art
Work, Likes,
Landscapes,
Sculpture,
Painting,
Abstract
- Art
criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful
form of "elevated" writing I know of.
It may also be one of the most challenging.. if
only because so few people have done it well enough
to be remembered.. but I'm not sure the challenge
is worth it.
Clement
Greenberg > Art
Criticism, Writing,
Challenges
- One
of the afflictions of art and of taste is the
untruth you may tell yourself about the operations
of your taste, or let's say, the results of your
taste and the untruth you may tell to others.
You're told that Raphael was a great painter and
you can't see it yourself, but since you've been
told it, you've read it everywhere and so forth,
you look at a Raphael and you may look at a failed
one and say, "well, it's got to be good because
Raphael is so famous, the authorities say he's
so good." That's one of the worst ways in
which to begin or to continue looking at art.
Clement
Greenberg > Likes,
Dislike,
Taste,
Art,
Famous,
Truth,
Painter,
Good
- Photographic
Realism said, in effect: "we're going to
shock you by doing the thing that's been anathema
since the mid-l9th century. We're going to stay
closer to nature, we're going to stay as close
to nature as photography does, and we all know
that's awful, and that's precisely why we're going
to do it.
Clement
Greenberg > Realism,
Nature,
Photography,
Ugly
- When
photography's good, let me put it that way, it's
as good as painting.
Clement
Greenberg > Photography,
Good,
Painting
- In
visual arts, prodigies don't count. In music and
literature, yes, but not in art.
Clement
Greenberg > Art,
Writing,
Music
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