What is Greenberg talking about in general---?
His essay shows his observation of technical changes in art itself and the way it is perceived i.e. Greenberg was friends with the painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland whose abstract paintings he (Greenberg) labelled “Post painterly abstraction”
Morris Louis Bernstein b. 28th November 1912, d. aged 49 7th September 1962 (Amercian abstract expressionist painter)….. In 1950 he became the earliest exponent of Colour Field Painting (primarily by large file of flat solid colour spread across or stained on to the canvas creating areas on unbroken surfaces and a flat picture plane - moment less on gesture brushstroke action in flavour of an overall consistency of form and process).
(Wikipedia – Morris Louis Bernstein – Colour Field)
Kenneth Noland – b 10th April 1924 d. 5th January 2010 American abstract painter also known for Colour Field Painting Met Norris Louis in early 1950 (in early 1960’s thought of as a minimalist painter).
Gustav Klimt is in Greenberg’s eyes the first real modernist Philosopher (he was the first to criticise the means itself of criticism) – modernism used art to call attention to art – Old masters used flat surfaces to tell a story thus it was a negative factor.
Artists mentioned by Greenberg as Monet, David, Manet, Cezanne, Fragonard, Ingres, Cubist Giotto Cimabue, and Mondrian Kantian
(British Journal of Aesthetics Greenberg, Kant and the problem of Modernist painting by Paul Crowther – Barbara Reise – challenged as did T J Clarke, Greenberg b. 16th January 1909 d. 7th May 1994
Art critic's exerted extraordinary influence as a champion of Abstract Art.
Note to myself – not sure I understand all of his theory’s so has given me a lot to think about and must come back to add more as his idea’s are completely new to me - STUDY MORE
Quote LOOKING IS CONCEIVED AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION MODERNISM IS MORE THAN JUST ART AND LITERATURE IT INCLUDES ALMOST ALL THAT IS ALIVE IN OUR CULTURE WITHOUT THE ART OF THE PAST ART SUCH AS MODERNIST ART WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE
Greenberg’s essay on Modernist painting is built on his earlier thoughts of avant-garde art and culture
He also believed that Kant was the first real modernist.
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