... know the theories it was being painted behind. As Wolfe explains, however, it isn't just the "culturati" that cause this great influence on art theory. Art critics all over the United States want, as always, to fit in with the chic of the chic and to be able to control ... essentially came down to a style in which lines, forms, colors, and contours all are merged eloquently in such a unification with the flatness of the canvas that it is art, as pure as art can be. Until 1950 or so, most of the basic art theories originated with the ideas of Greenberg and the purity ... the artwork had b...

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... the perfect republic outlined in Plato's The Republic. Though Plato was a champion of rational thought, he made clear statements that popular forms of art and poetry must be interoperated in a way that is in the best interest of the state more specifically its guardians. In ... These institutionalized censorship bodies were extremely powerful and effective. These artist associations also played a roll in patronizing the artists and displaying the art. In this way the unions not only served the government, but also was comprised of artists and served for their exibitations. ( ... and bei...

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... , Black Paintings (1959). This was arguably his defining step into a new movement apart from Abstract Expressionism. As part of the exhibition, 16 Americans, presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Stella's work introduced a view of painting without the gesturing action formerly used by the previous generation of artists (i.e. Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline).2 Fascinated with the ... and white, and an impersonal application of paint. Above all, these black pictures tried to reject the illusionism still practiced in the 1950s. Atmospheric density, spatial overlays, discreet fo...

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... of the storm-swept clouds is Dutch; but the power of design is Italian. Rhythm is reinforced through repetitions of shape, sky echoes forms of the sails classical are (Venetian school) design and plastic qualities of Italian painting, crystalline clarity. Mist irradiated by sunshine plays an increasingly ... and vermilions, they fade away. Chromatic harmonies, which show an almost total disregard of recognizable objects? These are the very canvases writers on art today consider the essence of Turner's genius. They have become an inspiration to Abstract Expressionists. For it was Turner, ...

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