Voulkos» practice arose out of a significant moment in American art: At the same time that critic Clement Greenberg was tracking the self - critical development of modern art to the Abstract Expressionist painters, the G.I. Bill was transforming university art education. (dailyserving.com)
His extensive theoretical work that was based on contentions that color, rather than form, is the primary medium of pictorial language, directed development of modern art during the 1950's and 1960's in the United States. (widewalls.ch)
He intended to pursue a career in banking and even enrolled in an executive training program at the Chemical Bank New York Trust, but in a sudden reversal that Buck would later attribute to Fred Licht's course «The Development of Modern Art: From Goya to the Present,» which he took in college, he decided to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University instead. (artforum.com)