Archile Gorky's "Good hope road"

This paper will contain the critical points that were made by Clement Greenberg in his essay on Modernist Painting and elaborate on them as well compare them to the painting “Good Hope Road” by Arshile Gorky. In his essay, Greenberg discusses his point of view on modernism. This is how he describes his theory: “I identify Modernism with the intensification, almost the exacerbation, of this self-critical tendency that began with the philosopher Kant.” According to …

…underwent an operation for cancer. In June 1948 his neck was broken in an automobile accident and he lost the use of his painting hand. His wife left him the following month, and shortly thereafter he hanged himself. But I believe he didn’t die in vain, because in my opinion no true artist can ever die as his principals and artworks he still can live to produce even greater artist in the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**