FSN 232 Chapter Notes - Chapter 27: Josef Albers, Willem De Kooning, Isabel Nicholas
22 Apr 2016
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Modernism used art to call attention to itself - it refers to itself constantly. Impressionists rejected underpainting and preferred to draw attention to the purity of the medium of painting. Greenberg thought the flatness of the painting was the most important aspect - shared by no other art form. New york became the center of the modern art world after paris fell to the nazis. Return to order followed the first world war and rejected extreme avant-garde art. Art criticism was becoming more important, going so far as dictating the ways in which the art market operated. Rosenberg coined the term action painting; the process of producing art was just as important as the finished product itself it records the process of making art. Greenberg disagreed promoted individual mythologies of art making (surrealism and others emphasized the individual character of the artist) he thought that the arc of art was bigger than any one individual artist.
