VIC101H1 Lecture Notes - Willem De Kooning, Clement Greenberg, Abstract Expressionism
14 Apr 2013
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Max ernst - fled to america pre-wwii. Mortar women - picked up fallen bricks etc. to make building material. Several thousands killed in siege of berlin. America became confident after great depression while germany was in ruins. Abstract expressionism (originally new york school - american painters centred in new york) evolved into independent movement. 1st movement presided over & created by critic - clement greenberg (called it painterly abstraction) Greenberg made people"s careers => financial success to artists. Market determines or distorts art success of movements and artists. The picture [painting] has now become an entity, belonging to the same amount of space as our bodies ; it"s a stand-in for self (male only) - greenberg. Influential statement: painting is real, it"s an object that occupies space like a body. New paintings weren"t stand-in for something else (e. g. portrait = stand-in for e. g.
