Sentences with phrase «overall flatness of the canvas»
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The two - minute version, he says, would be that Greenberg favored «purity, formalism, flatness, overall design, and surface incident» in painting while Rosenberg argued for «the action of the artist on the canvas and the notion of the creative act being the most important aspect of art making, rather than the product.»
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By refusing to adopt the «old values» of traditional art and asserting the flatness and objectivity of the canvas he was not rejecting completely the energetic brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism, as is often suggested, but insisting on the development of the overall surface without relying on the illusionism that comes from the visual brushstrokes or the sense of depth that the inclusion of color might imply.