“A self-declared outsider, the renowned essayist and art critic Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) rose to prominence in the 20th century to become one of the most essential voices in the discourse of American art. … This period would mark the evolution of Rosenberg’s theses regarding modernism, the rise of abstraction, and the very act of creation. Later, he would coin the term ‘action painting,’ embraced by Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko. In the seminal essay ‘The American Action Painters,’ published in ARTnews in 1952, Rosenberg championed the very act of painting. ...”
Saul Steinberg’s “Portrait of Harold Rosenberg,” 1972, watercolor and crayon, Yale University Art Gallery.
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