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
problem neighborhood solutions
Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.
breaks
It breaks your heart. They were hardworking and enthusiastic about life.
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
breaks people
This breaks my heart. They were hardworking people and very honest.
art greatness art-is
Greatness in art is always a by-product.
united-states social structure
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.
art reality artist
In reality, however, an artist is a product of art
art philosophy historical
Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
art mind mold
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
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.
struggle vocabulary profound
The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.
art hymns america
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it has that arbitrariness and importance which works take on when they are no longer noticeable elements of the environment. In America kitsch is Nature. The Rocky Mountains have resembled fake art for a century.
art labyrinth exit
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
color drawing form
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with.