"Here’s a suggestion: reframe the undoubted greatness of Abstract Expressionism in terms of the risks of abject failure that its proponents ran. (I think of the oft-told anecdote of Pollock asking Lee Krasner, of a drip work that he had just made, “Is this a painting?”) The drama is not inherent in the forms that they created, which may or may not prove lastingly influential. All artists must rise or fall by braving perils and finding opportunities specific to themselves and to their own times, the canon be damned".
The Met’s show of Abstract Expressionism wants to remake the canon.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/the-inflation-of-abstraction
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