Great
thing about abstract art is that anyone can do it.
Not exact matches
And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war
abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced in a brief «manifesto» of the rising movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times in response to a negative review of the new style: «There is no such
thing as good painting
about nothing.
Amid the leaden self - importance of the
abstract expressionist generation of painters, Baldessari played the ingenue, seeing what would happen, as he puts it, if he took
art at its word: «If it really was all
about communication, why not really try to communicate, with
things that everyone could understand?
One of the great
things about the fairs, particularly
Art Basel Miami Beach, is the amount of mid-century
abstract painting that is shown, much of it geometric.