Sentences with phrase «residue of the actual work»

Greenberg saw the clotted and oil - caked surfaces as reflecting the artists» existential struggle; Rosenberg saw the finished object as only a kind of residue of the actual work of art, which he thought lay in the «process» of the painting's creation.

The canvas was no longer considered a hermetic, independent object, but rather became «an arena in which to act» and the finished work was only a residue of the actual work of art — the process of the painting's creation.

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Rosenberg's critique shifted the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished painting being only the physical manifestation, a kind of residue, of the actual work of art, which was in the act or process of the painting's creation.

Elsewhere the actual dehydrated residue of individual jellyfish is preserved in a series of framed works on paper.