American essayist and visual art critic (1909–1994)
Clement Greenberg
Born
Clement Greenberg
(1909-01-16)January 16, 1909
New York City, U.S.
Died
May 7, 1994(1994-05-07) (aged 85)
New York City, U.S.
Education
Syracuse University (AB)
Movement
Abstract expressionism
post-painterly abstraction
color field painting
Clement Greenberg (/ˈɡriːnbɜːrɡ/) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994),[1] occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician. He is best remembered for his association with the art movement abstract expressionism and the painter Jackson Pollock.
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ClementGreenberg (/ˈɡriːnbɜːrɡ/) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known...
it would be portable. After seeing the big mural, the art critic ClementGreenberg wrote: "I took one look at it and I thought, 'Now that's great art...
critics played a significant role in its development. Critics like ClementGreenberg and Harold Rosenberg promoted the work of artists associated with...
thinking. The art critic ClementGreenberg expounded this theory of modernism in his essay Avant-Garde and Kitsch. Greenberg labeled the products of consumer...
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American abstract expressionism. During the late 1940s and early 1950s ClementGreenberg was the first art critic to suggest and identify a dichotomy between...
critics sympathetic to their cause, like ClementGreenberg, focused on their works' "objectness." ClementGreenberg was also an influential critic in action...
as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred". ClementGreenberg sees Modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual...
and use of bold color for expressive means. The influential critic ClementGreenberg considered Hofmann's first New York solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s...
during the period of modernism. Coined by the influential art critic ClementGreenberg in his essay called "Modernist Painting", the phrase "integrity of...
included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by ClementGreenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came...
feelings in his vibrant paintings, comparing them to jazz music. ClementGreenberg described him as a "supreme colorist", along with Kenneth Noland in...
credited as exhibiting the first instance of all-over painting seen by ClementGreenberg, a notable art critic. Janet Sobel was born as Jennie Olechovsky in...
to denote a phase of modern art. Defenders of modernism, such as ClementGreenberg, as well as radical opponents of modernism, such as Félix Guattari...
as when the transition from Victorianism to Modernism occurred". ClementGreenberg sees Modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual...
well-heeled, joined Greenberg in promoting a style that fit the political climate and the intellectual rebelliousness of the era. ClementGreenberg proclaimed...
September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved April 4, 2006 ClementGreenberg: Modernism and Postmodernism Archived 2019-09-01 at the Wayback Machine...
general forms of criticism began.[citation needed] Cultural critic ClementGreenberg wrote that a good critic excels through "insights into the evidence ...
nature was already a potent aspect of the influential art critic ClementGreenberg's vision of Modern art during the 1950s. With the emergence of an exclusively...
2011-12-28. Collage Archived 2019-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, essay by ClementGreenberg Retrieved July 20, 2010 Leland, Nita; Virginia Lee Williams (September...
artist and adventurer. Art / Books, London. ISBN 978-1-908970-08-4 Greenberg, Clement (1978). Art and Culture. Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-6681-8 Holliday...
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abstract), are classified as abstract expressionists, albeit from what ClementGreenberg termed the Color field direction of abstract expressionism. Both Hans...
reception for arts that were considered craft. In 1939, art critic ClementGreenberg wrote "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" where he presented his ideas about...