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
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.
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.
creativity self creating
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
artist self paint
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
creating self engaged
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
struggle self numbers
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).
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 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