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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 15 page paper examines the art terms
avant-garde and kitsch and places them with in a
historic framework as well as looking at their
similarities and differences. Unique artists
discussed are Russian artist,Lili Brochetain and
German artist Kurt Schwitters.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Page Count:
15 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BBavantk.doc.
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as a social group migrating west, with a few soldiers riding ahead of the major troupe, then we would need to assign the avant-garde artists as the "point guard."
They are ahead of the major group by a certain time span, exploring new ground, seeking inspirational water and grazing areas; they are the first to see "the new land."
Avant-garde: In a celebrated 1939 article, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," published in Partisan Review, the New York art critic Clement Greenberg argued that figurative painting was dead. "The
alternative to abstraction," he wrote, "is not Michelangelo but kitsch." Every attempt to make the painted image vie with the photograph, he believed, would lead to disaster, as clich?s took
charge of the canvas. Henceforth painting must provide its own subject matter: it must be self-sufficient, pure, uncontaminated by the figurative image. The future of painting lay with "abstract
expressionists," as Greenberg described them: the artists who treated painting like music, as a medium for expressing emotion through the use of abstract forms.
Greenberg was perhaps the most influential art critic of his day. His essay set the agenda for an emerging school of New York painters and
also set the price tag on their works. Vast sums of public and private money have since changed hands to stock American houses and American museums with works that, to
the ordinary eye, have nothing to recommend them apart from their attempt to be abreast of the times. The avant-garde ceased to be a realm of caution and experiment and
became, under Greenbergs tutelage, a mass industry. So long as you avoided the literal image, so long as you defied all figurative conventions, you, too, could be a modern painter.
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