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This
6 page report discusses modernism which is an example of artists
were reacting against the isolation and the destruction of war,
itself, and were looking for the healing and unification found
within the process of the artwork. This report looks at the
philosophy of leading critic Cement Greensburg, as well as the
work of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Helen Frankenthaler.
Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Page Count:
6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWmodart.rtf
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the work of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Helen Frankenthaler. Bibliography lists 5 sources. BWmodart.rtf Modernism -- Pollock, Frankenthaler, Warhol
and Greenberg By: C.B. Rodgers - November 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction -- Thesis Art movements
such as modernism are usually seen as a reaction of a movement of the past. This time, however, artists were reacting against the isolation and the destruction of war,
itself, and were looking for the healing and unification found within the process of the artwork. This discussion will look at the philosophy of leading critic Cement Greensburg, as
well as the work of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Helen Frankenthaler. History The fall of Paris to the Nazi army in June 1940 marked the end of an
era in European modernism. If the modernist movement in art was to have any immediate future, it would be left to artists in the United States --both native modernists
and those who had fled Europe--to create that future. Almost overnight, then, New York became the sole remaining outpost of the modernist movement, and the unofficial capital of the international
avant-garde. This was as much of a shock to American artists as it was to the Europeans, for modernist art was essentially considered a European creation and American artists were
used to regarding themselves as the underdogs of the movement (Kramer 17). Modernist painting concentrated on the formal aspects of art; we might say, that it looked at those qualities
which made up the "process of painting: color, flatness, paint application, scale, newness, and was less concerned with narrative, figuration, content, history or the descriptive" (Internet source). We might
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