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Clement Greenberg (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n b ɜːr ɡ /) (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formalist aesthetician.
- Clement Greenberg, January 16, 1909, New York City, U.S.
- Syracuse University (AB)
- May 7, 1994 (aged 85), New York City, U.S.
May 7, 1994 · Greenberg, the most influential art critic in the 20th century, supported Abstract Expressionism and the formal properties of color, line, form, and space.
- January 16, 1909
- May 7, 1994
Jun 27, 2020 · Clement Greenberg was the outspoken voice of 20th century American Abstract Art, supporting the Abstract Expressionists and The Colour Field Painters. His ideas now define the iconic Modernist era.
- Rosie Lesso
Apr 26, 2024 · Clement Greenberg was an American art critic who advocated a formalist aesthetic. He is best known as an early champion of Abstract Expressionism. Greenberg was born to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He attended high school in Brooklyn, and in the mid 1920s he took art classes at the Art.
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For Greenberg, a consummately formal, purely material, nonsymbolic work—for example, a painting finessing its flatness in the act of acknowledging it—was an exemplification of positivism, which he saw as the reigning ideology of the modern world.
Nov 14, 2012 · Clement Greenberg was arguably the most influential American art critic of the second half of the twentieth century. Greenberg explained his concept of formalism--arguably what he is most famous for apart from being the primary champion of Jackson Pollock--in his 1960 essay “Modernist Painting.”
Jul 21, 2014 · WHAT DID HE DO? Greenberg admiring an especially flat painting by Kenneth Noland. As a prolific critic, Clement Greenberg developed his theories on the page—as he put it, “I would not deny being one of those critics who educate themselves in public.” Greenberg’s intensely influential focus was on the notion of “formal purity.”
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