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[garadinervi]

Multiples, Inc. 1965-1992, Edited and written by Dieter Schwarz, Texts by Harold Rosenberg and Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr., Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2021

Exhibition: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, January 12 – February 27, 2021

[thethinkerybook]

"At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event." - Harold Rosenberg

From 2018 Brown journal

[careful-disorder]

Barnett Newman, Onement III - Wikiart

"At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event." Harold Rosenberg - Abstract Expressionism

[blessedrestlessness]

          “‘The spectator,’ [Arp] observes, oddly, ‘always finds himself in a false position before a leaf.’ Books on Arp almost invariably omit his Christian name from the cover, to avoid choosing between ‘Hans’ and ‘Jean.’ The ‘Arp’ isolates itself like the twang of a string. ‘For Arp,’ writes Mme. Carola Giedion-Welcker, his biographer (Jean Arp, Abrams, 1957), ‘man is not the crown of creation but simple, lost, transient, like a leaf in the wind.’ Arp’s sense of encountering a universe of unidentified, or only partly identified, persons and things has about it something Whitmanesque, of being without a past and needing to start from scratch on a newly discovered continent. Arp’s Dadaism is, to borrow Gertrude Stein’s Dadaist phrase, a ‘beginning again and again.’”

          —Harold Rosenberg, The De-definition of Art (1972)

[artemisdreaming]

Robert Motherwell

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 1, 1948 Medium: Ink on paper Object number: 639.1987 The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC)

Description from The Metropolitan Museum of Art:  “ Beginning in about 1948, Robert Motherwell made works that would evolve into an ongoing series of over one hundred painted variations on a theme that he called Elegies to the Spanish Republic.  Initially inspired by the Spanish Civil War as well as by the poetry of Harold Rosenberg and Federico García Lorca, the real subject of Motherwell's Elegies is not any particular literary source or political event but rather a general meditation on life and death.  Although specific paintings may express an individual spirit, or "tone voice," they remain a family group, related to one another by subject and by similarities in composition and format.  In all of these paintings, the horizontal white canvas is rhythmically divided by two or three freely drawn vertical bars and punctuated at various intervals by ovoid forms, creating a structure seemingly heraldic in nature.  The paintings are almost always composed entirely of black and white—the colors of mourning and radiance, of death and life.  Motherwell has remarked on the entanglement of these forces in these works, as a metaphor for his understanding of the experience of living. 

Motherwell's Elegies of the 1960s reflect his Abstract Expressionist affiliations in the gestural, painterly treatment of form, the rapid execution, and the integration of accidental effects, such as spattered paint.”

  Image:   The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NYC)

Poetry in painting:

I knew who had sent them in those

Green cases Who doesn’t lose his mind will receive Like me That wire in my neck up to the ear.

Harold Rosenberg, from  A Bird for Every Bird

Related post:   HERE

[artofquotation]

"An artist is a person who has invented an artist."

“An artist is a person who has invented an artist.”

“An artist is a person who has invented an artist.” Harold Rosenberg, writer, art critic  

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Gouache

[careful-disorder]

Cover of Possibilities, 1

“In the first and only issue... Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg presented Possibilities as a magazine of artists and writers who “practice” in their work their own experience without seeking to transcend it in academic, group or political formulas.” - Gulbenkian Art Library