Quotes by Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

Fame

Painter

Prestige

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

Artist

Biographies

Painting

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

Art

Historical

Philosophy

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

Art

Depressing

Games

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Change

Past

Stars

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Europe

History

Time

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Artist

Intellectual

Intelligence

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

Art

Paradox

Tradition

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

Design

Events

Space

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

Addiction

Permanence

Revolution

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Done

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Europe

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Quotes by Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

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