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
Harold Rosenberg quotes about
understand
I can't understand it. They just wanted to retire.
breaks
It breaks your heart. They were hardworking and enthusiastic about life.
artist persons
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.
artist today essentials
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
political gestures moral
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.
color drawing form
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.
artist self paint
The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
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 biographies painting
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
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.
way making-money proof
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
practice conservative individual
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
struggle self numbers
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).
artist self secret
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.