Clement Greenberg

The analyzed portrait was painted by Frida in the time, where her husband Diego Riv- iera (Portrait on on the forehead) had an in- famous affair with Maria Felix (a film star). Maria was also a good friend of Frida and always thought that Frida would joke about her husbands affair like she did with all his other stupidities. However, as this affair was a public scandal, this paintings reveals her true emotions. The Painting was ordered by Frida’s two married friends (Florence Arquin & Sam…

Paul Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionist Per the art story foundation, Jackson Pollock was born Paul Jackson Pollock, and he was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five children, the son of a surveyor constantly moving from place to place all over California, he went to high school at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, CA. There is where he met Philip Guston who introduced Pollock to Theosophical ideas (Freedgood 111). Which prepare Pollock for his future dealing in…

for criticism, but Boris Groys makes landmark progress at linking up the threads between the modern and postmodern from a Soviet perspective in The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond. Sharply critiquing the Clement Greenbergs of the world who dismiss Socialist Realism as politically utilized kitsch as well as the Vladimir Papernyis who treat it as a disconnected Russian “‘lapse… into a ‘primitive state,’” he asserts a two-pronged argument. Not only was…

Art critic Clement Greenberg once said, “I don’t see art as having ever, in a real sense, affected the course of human affairs.” The sentiment here is that any “art” which has an impact on the world becomes propaganda or craft. However, the people who postulate this sentiment are the ones who use art for the crudest of purposes: the art market. It’s the same logic as saying that education has no purpose outside the world of work and consumption. When art becomes liberated from the demands of the…

Mark Tobey, a man greatly associated with abstract expressionism and self identity within abstract expressionism, we look into arguably the piece of work that cemented his name within the American art world, Electric Night. Breaking this work down aspect by aspect, visually and conceptually. Exploring his style known as white writing, and influences from the Japanese culture, the Northwest school, and other artist including Jackson Pollock. Finally, looking at what Mark Tobey meant the abstract…

Let me simply state the central, polemical move in this book. I suggest a new route to the paintings of Delacroix, one that does not start with his Salon début, the Dante and Virgil in Hell (1822), but rather begins with an examination of the 1824 Salon. This context included works by artist who are now obscure – Xavier Sigalon, Leon Cogniet – and it was filled with critical voices of enduring and yet neglected relevance for French painting, such as the novelist Stendhal (Henri Beyle) and…