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Tag: Helen Frankenthaler

  • Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

    Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

    Art is, or it should be, about more than simply making marks on a surface or manipulating materials into pleasing–or indeed displeasing–shapes…. perhaps the avant-garde or kitsch. A true artist benefits immeasurably by knowing about the history that has created the universe they traverse. Ever wonder what all that academic talk is that curators like…

  • Boston Based Artist Jeannie Motherwell Draws Structures From Uncertainty

    Boston Based Artist Jeannie Motherwell Draws Structures From Uncertainty

    Dear Artist, Aristotle differentiated humans from their animal counterparts by dint of logos, the power of rational speech. Napoleon was attributed the quote, “four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” Human civilization was founded on the exercise of this divine faculty, and is destroyed by it in equal measure. Speech,…