Exam 1 TERMS-Contemporary Flashcards
Clement Greenberg
purity in the arts, doesn’t like illusionistic stuff, too much like other arts like literature.
Interested in form, the laying out of painting on canvas.
Most influential early 1900s American art critic
Felt that the peak in art was just after WWII
Champion of abstract art “Culmination of man’s artistic abilities”
Saw Manet and on leading to American artistic pinnacle
Harold Rosenberg
—“American Action Painters”—
For him, it’s about the actual act of painting, while Greenberg is about the form of the painting. His own term is action painting.
A bodily confrontation with the canvas.
Hans Namuth
1951 makes a famous short film of Pollock at work.
This film and the stills that were taken of Pollock at work were incredibly influential on the art work…to see how he did it.
Willem de Kooning
Greenburg likes him because his art seems to be all about painting itself.
He understands academic rules, but breaks them.
Makes his brushstrokes very visible, doesn’t try to hide anything about his paining. Greenburg likes this honesty of the painting.
Gutai
“Concreteness” “Embodiment”
Still recovering from WWII
- Time of renewal and redemption.
- Japanese culture meeting western influence.
- Felt there was beauty when material things began to break or decay.
Gutai looking to Pollock for inspiration, but Gutai works also being acquired by European and other artists/collectors, mutual inspiration.
Neo Avant-Gardes
Piero Manzoni
e. Critiquing the acts of enunciating how we decide works of art. How far can we go with the criticism of what art is and how it operates.
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Contemporary Art
Art of our moment, art of now
Usually refers to art since 1970–kind of arbitrary classification
Modernism
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Postmodernism
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