Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenbergwas an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic. He coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism. Rosenberg is best known for his art criticism. Beginning in the early 1960s he became art Critic for the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 February 1906
CountryUnited States of America
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
breaks people
This breaks my heart. They were hardworking people and very honest.
breaks
It breaks your heart. They were hardworking and enthusiastic about life.
art artist kitsch
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
art greatness art-is
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
united-states social structure
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
art past self
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all times and places stands against him as an entity with objectives and values of its own. In turn, since becoming aware of the organized body of artworks as the obstacle to his own aesthetic self-affirmation, the artist is pushed toward anti-intellectualism and willful dismissal of the art of the past.
art mean appreciated
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
art reality artist
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
art character movement
How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
art philosophy historical
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
art order done
Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.
art mind mold
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
artist self secret
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.