The Study Of Greenberg's Art Criticism

Greenberg is one of the most important western art critics in the twentieth Century.His artistic criticism has an important influence on the mainstream art of American Abstract Expressionism at that time.Greenberg is the key figure in our study of the history of Western art and art criticism.The development of American culture and art has a close relationship with the formation of Greenberg's art criticism.Under the background of formalism and art theory,Greenberg has formed a formalistic art criticism with its own characteristics.His artistic criticism is roughly composed of two periods.In the earlier period,he explored the basic category of modernist art and drew up the avant-garde art theory.It was considered that media was the root of each category of art.In order to maintain independence,we should maintain the self-discipline of the media.For modernist painting,the planarity of the media is its fundamental feature,so it began from the Impressionist school,after the Cubism,to the abstract,and formed a continuous development history to the plane.In the later period,through the artistic criticism of American Abstract Expressionism,it gradually constructed its own art criticism system.Under the view of modern art,Greenberg has formed a unique form of formalistic criticism.These methods are embodied in his formal criticism of European modernist art and American Abstract Expressionism.The summary of Greenberg's art of modernism not only affects the artist,but also has an important influence on the art critic.Many of Greenberg's art critics have built his own critical theory with Greenberg as the starting point.The study of Greenberg has an important academic significance for us to study the history of Western art and the history of criticism.Greenberg's artistic criticism also has important enlightenment and reference significance to the study of western art.,at the meantime,greenberg enlighten the view of philosophy and art history that the critics should have.