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There’s an overlooked reason for Pollock’s fame. Even if you love him, you might not know the name of the man who made him famous.
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Jackson Pollock is one of the 20th century’s most famous artists. But do you know the critic who made his reputation?
Clement Greenberg is a well-known name in the art world, but not necessarily to art fans. However, he earned a reputation as one of the most influential art critics in the 20th century, whose legacy included the canonization of Jackson Pollock.
Abstract expressionist art needed vocal champions to support challenging, unique work, and Greenberg was the most powerful and vocal in his defense of the art and, in particular, Jackson Pollock. Greenberg went from tie salesman to intellectual in less than a decade, thanks to strongly worded arguments for a new artform. Jackson Pollock was one of his favorite artists, and the two spent time together socially as they simultaneously climbed in the art world.
Is Clement Greenberg the reason that Jackson Pollock is so famous? He’s definitely a part of it — and understanding the role of Greenberg and critics like him can be a useful tool to understanding art in the 20th century.
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I am professional Architect but now a days I don't know I wanna become a artist, is it good or not
Because he's an american and american proclaimed him as a legend.
They do it in music today.
Legend of what?
There's beauty in the organized chaos that is Jackson Pollock's enormous spattered canvases
A "-berg" was responsible for this… EVERY SINGLE TIME
What the filmmaker would like you to believe is music is, in fact, extremely irritating noise. I really wanted to view the video, but the repetitive noise drove me away. It adds nothing to the video, and subtracts a great deal. It's like a dentist's drill.
You can paint anything and just give it a good story and there you can sell that for $80000000000000000
Lets be real if Pollock was not white his art would not sell. Not only that his artwork would be extremely critiqued for the trash it is. Pollock's fame is a product of his privilege. Without his whiteness he is nothing.
Miro: finally a worthy enemy.
Pollock's Mural 1943 is his masterpiece.
True story: My parents met at The Art Students League of New York. One of their good friends was a surreal abstractionist, Jerry Kamrowski. He went to the Guggenheim Foundation and got a scholarship to do pure abstractionism, which was considered passé already by the young artists. My parents were semi abstractionists. Kamrrowski continued his surrealism. Then he got letter to bring in his work. So he stretched a large number of canvasses, popped up bags of popping corn, bought a few jugs of wine and invited his friends at the League over. After they were done, he sorted them into piles from worst to best and dated them Sept, Oct, Nov….then took them down to the Guggenheim and got his scholarship re-newer. They could not tell that a dozen different people, including Spiro the sculptor, had made the paintings.
They always called Polliock as the cowboy artist. All because of a picture oof him as a kid in a cowboy hat. His youngerr later laughted and said Jackson has never been on a horse in his life. The famouse story of him urinating in Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace was a reimaginged story from Thomas Hart Benton. After WW2 the global power shift from Europe to the US was a major factor in promoting American artist as the global vision.
Jackson pollock is representing student minds in an art
Believe me, for a whole minute I thought the painting was actually a map.
Just like today’s pop music, it’s all marketing
That's why critics hate artists who have a mass fanbase because these superstars get credibility from the masses and not crowned by the critics to run their political agendas on the public.
I will not put such work under art.
7:37 My dude is seriously resting his leg on the canvas
7:01 Bruh
Promoted by the CIA
This is a great video! It reveals the biases of the past that have helped some while overlooking, possibly, other greater talents in so many industries, not just the arts. It is still happening today.
So Vox must have great management too?
How Vox got overrated..
when i see 6:15 um cheeseee
5:00 the meme is meant to show vast differences, not similarity. This works against your point and is bad memeing.
Its paint splatter
JOKE
Wow. The amount of hate in these comments.
I wonder how many people in this thread make money painting and selling art. That’s all that really matters.
Bernard Newman probably did the dullest works on art in the history of human kind.
At least Picasso could paint if he wanted to
The lack of order may be cool, but they aren’t worth millions
It's not deep, it's pretentious.
Love this channel, but Americans trying to prenounce Dutch names hurts my soul
His art (and he) is famous because it fit the narrative of the age and subsequently helped to define it. Right person, right place + luck.
I also think he was a talented and passionate artist wether you like his art or not.
I don't get this kind of "art." Overrated. Waste of time and money.
"Greenberg" shenanigans…Shocking
Abtract art: for when you can't be bothered to learn form.
4:20 Piet Mondriaan, Piet is pronounced as Pete not Peeyet
Am I the only one who is reminded of "The Emperor's New Clothes"?
This was interesting. Thanks!
Hes not overated. Hes amazing.