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As these late canvases wash over you with their great swaths of paint, you can immediately see why Clement Greenberg, writing during the late 1950s, spoke of the "rehabilitation" of Monet and why "the most advanced of advanced painters" (Greenberg names no names) "were enthusiastically rediscovering him."
Their chief accomplishment: Clement Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," the 1822 poem that introduced Americans to Santa Claus (of course you know it: " 'Twas the night before Christmas ..."
Written by The Commitments ' authors Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, the film isn't about making fun of aging rockers as much as it is about rekindling old friendships: "winsome if entirely predictable" (Eric Brace, the Washington Post ). (Download the trailer here.)
If you preferred his early landscapes, it was easy to regard this new Soutine as--in the words of Clement Greenberg, who reviewed the MoMA show--"a victim of the museum."
These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."