Archile Gorky's "Good hope road"
This paper will contain the critical points that were made by Clement Greenberg in his essay on Modernist Painting and elaborate on them as well compare them to the painting “Good Hope Road” by Arshile Gorky. In his essay, Greenberg discusses his point of view on modernism. This is how he describes his theory: “I identify Modernism with the intensification, almost the exacerbation, of this self-critical tendency that began with the philosopher Kant.” According to Greenberg, Philosopher Kant was the first one to criticize the criticism itself. He relates to Kant’s philosophy because he sees Modernist art as art that criticizes itself from the inside. In other words Modernist art has the ability to criticize its own uniqueness. This technique makes Modernism even more unique, because due to the self-criticism, the Modernist art forbids itself the using of mediums or techniques that could resemble another art. Each modernist work has to be peculiar and different from others in order to stand out and bring out its uniqueness. At the same time Greenberg also mentioned that “ I cannot insist enough that Modernism has never meant anything like a break with a past. It may mean a devolutio! n, an unraveling of anterior tradition, bu
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Hope Road, Philosopher Kant, Betrothal II, Arshile Gorky, Picasso Miro, modernist art, Modernist Painting, , Diary Seducer, Clement Greenberg, modern art, hope road, painting composition, arshile gorky, philosopher kant,
Approximate Word count = 920
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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