Clement Greenberg

wipe out the Medici for good, but Lorenzo, although he was injured from the Pazzi attacks, traveled over to the pope and convinced him not to. The Medici were involved with a lot of artists during the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Botticelli were among these artists. da Vinci and Michelangelo were both prime examples of the “Renaissance Man”, who was a person who had a wide understanding of many different subjects. Leonardo da Vinci was a talented young man who lived in…

Catherine de Medici was an Italian-born, French queen who became very powerful and even more controversial during her time at the helm of France. Orphaned as an infant, used as a pawn in her family's vicious power games, saddled with an unfaithful husband, and forced to suffer the untimely deaths of several of her children, Catherine managed to maintain control of the true power of the French throne in an effort to protect her family and preserve her birthright. Her methods of doing so,…

Also, during this time, art critics, Clement Greenburg and Michael Fried, expanded upon what modernism in art is, by addressing medium-specificity in their writings. Today’s art historians do not completely agree with Greenberg and Fried’s ideas of modernism during the 1960s. In this essay, I will discuss what modernism meant during this time for art writers, Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, and the main disagreements of today’s art historians with Greenberg and Fried’s ideas. High…

Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried both are working out of the modernist perspective in the 1950’s and 1960’s. This perspective is a framework that describes how art could be understood during this time period. Modernist art in both Greenberg and Fried’s perspectives appeals to the concept of medium specificity, how this ends up affecting the pictorial space and in the end the meaning of the work as understood by the artist/viewer. In this writing a discussion on the relevant aspects of this…

1. What did “modernism” mean in the 1960’s, for art writers such as Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried? In the late 1950’s and 60’s, modernistic art was referred to as ‘high modernism’. This term was generated by Greenberg’s well thought out and expressive theorizations of modern art. At that time, there were numerous issues in regards to modern art. The art market was growing at an accelerated rate due to the variation in artistic approaches in a fast pace and competitive world. As a result,…

know it’s this style.“ I took one look at it and thought, “Now that’s great art,” and I knew Jackson was the greatest painter this country had produced.- art critic Clement Greenberg”. Many thought that Abstract Expressionism was strange, and had no meaning to it whatsoever but it actually did. However, this art critic Clement Greenberg saw it and said it’s great because he saw the meaning behind it. In addition, there were other great artists during this era like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman,…

emits. Several people have attempted to describe his work however few have succeeded in their endeavor. For this paper, I am going to look at Linda Norden’s description of Chihuly’s work, a video interview of Chihuly, as well as an article from Clement Greenberg for comparison. From these, one prominent writer, Linda Norden, evaluated Chihuly’s art and argued that his forms extend from nature. She does this by first discussing how his art draws insipiration from the Art Nouveau style. This…

materials used in the production of the ‘Veils’ paintings. Moreover, this paper also centers on how the techniques and materials in producing the Veils series are important in gaining the approval of well-known art critics Michael Fried and Clement Greenberg. Analysis of Morris Louis’ ‘Veils’ Paintings…

traditions and theology of academia severely. Unlike the previous generation of artists, post-war artists cut almost all ties with conceived notions of high art, and continually broke down barriers of what art is and should be about. Critics such as Clement Greenberg described this newly discovered onslaught of art ideology in his essay “Modernist Painting” in 1960, that stated art should be self critical and call attention to itself and the medium. In Greenberg’s words, “Modernism used art to…

Modernism and the cold war can be regarded as the twin shaping forces on cultural production in the 1950s. When some ardent practitioners tried to move beyond modernist art, others retreated from it, but it remained the defining aesthetic paradigm of the decade. As historical mode modernism became institutionalised in the 1950s as established by the Nobel laureate trio comprising the modernist writers Faulkner, Eliot and Hemingway. Kitsch and modernism were deeply entangled during the period.…