Clement Greenberg

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CRITICS OF CLEMENT GREENBERG

Art is incomplete without the use of color in the modern world today. In line with the constant changes that people experience and the surrounding environment that has been intended over the years, it shows that the changing dynamics of our immediate surrounding tend to influence the developing arts that all of us individuals aspire to achieve altogether.

Amongst the most prominent names who have served the purpose of creating and establishing the changes and the challenges that have been intended over the years, Clement Greenberg stands out as a firm institution that deeply understood the essence and the meaning of color in line with the artistic development (Herskovic, 2000, p.16).

Greenberg has also earned itself a reputation of the critic that not only made way for developing the traces of being a critic. His most renowned work and his most prized work was being intended in the area of abstract expressionist movement and was also published and released as amongst the most important critics that have been intended for all this time (Herskovic, 2000, p.16).

Color Field Painting

Amongst the most prominent and the most intriguing outcomes that have been witnessed in the long-run implies the changes and the challenges that have been experienced in the light of the color field painting. Color field painting surfaced as part of an important aspect that not only changed the course of creating a better understanding and comprehension of the development of art and the cultures for decades.

People associated and serving in this particular entity not only made way for understanding the essence of color field therapy but, in the eyes of Clement, they fell under the category of “Post-Painterly Abstraction” (Waldman, 1977). Color field painting has been serving for decades, tracing back to the 1950's, when the Action Painters - those artists who were involved as the loud, vocal extroverts, expressing all emotions and expressions through their work and the kind of contributions they made in line with painting and art at the same time (Herskovic, 2000).

“Mountains and Sea” by Helen Frankenthaler

Amongst these, the most important aspect that has been observed is her outstanding piece 'Mountains and Sea'. In the eyes of Greenberg, The piece has been notified and understood as an icon to the American culture and art as we speak. Not only this, 'Mountains and Sea' depicts the gap that exists between the varying timelines, but also aims to depict the bridge that makes way for existing between the past and present that we see and witness today (Waldman, 1996, pp. 94).

For Greenberg, although the pieces did not prove to be anything special or the fact it left on an impression in his mind, but he certainly asked her out and the pair went were together for five years (Rowley, 2007).

According to his point of view, the essence that was associated and revolving around modern painting only came with eradication and the separation of all knowledgeable and physical elements that are associated with an individual ...