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
notebook art future
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality...
fame prestige painter
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
art creative doe
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.
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.
way making-money proof
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
europe world modern
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
reputation recognition curator
No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.
artist self paint
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
art artist identity
Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.
mean artist opposites
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.
art museums ongoing
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
art past purpose
If being an anti-art artist is difficult, being an anti-art art historian is a hard position indeed. His doctrinal revolutionism brings forth nothing new in art but reenacts upheavals on the symbolic plane of language. It provides the consoling belief that overthrows are occurring as in the past, that barriers to creation are being surmounted, and that art is pursuing a radical purpose, even if it is only the purpose of doing away with itself.
artist biographies painting
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
art tradition paradox
Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.