CAVA231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clement Greenberg, Modern Art, Museum Of Modern Art
1 Aug 2018
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Key terms: high modernism, formalism, abstract expressionism, media specificity. Jackson pollock was considered one of the leading artists for modern art: pollock broke free from freudian symbolism and surrealism. His works did not reference any figure or symbols. (cid:494)full fathom five(cid:495) (cid:4666)1947(cid:4667) was among the first drip paintings created by pollock. (cid:498)[jackson pollock] is the most powerful painter in contemporary america(cid:499) clement. Why 1947: artists were readily experimenting with the practice of art and less with the end result, while this experimentation was freeing for the artist, it created a drift between the art and viewer. Essentially, the audience only witnessed the end result, not the experience itself. It was increasingly harder for the audience to connect with the artist, and th us the actual artwork itself. Influential artists like rosenberg believed abstract paintings were a (cid:498)biography of the artist(cid:499). What is abstract expressionism: to understand abstract expressionism, you must first understand the term.
