Clement Greenberg vs. Georges Braque
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Clement Greenberg
1909 – 1994
Clement Greenberg, 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. He is best remembered for his association with the art movement abstract expressionism and the painter Jackson Pollock.
"Perhaps the greatest change that industrialism has made in daily life is to separate work from leisure in a radical and almost absolute way. Once the efficacy o…"
Georges Braque
1882 – 1963
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso.
"In art progress does not consist in extension, but in the knowledge of limits."
Connections
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