The Most Influential Theory of Modern Painting

How Clement Greenberg defined the work of Monet, Cezanne and other modern painters

Impression, Sunrise (1872) by Claude Monet. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. Image source Wikimedia Commons

It was the modern painters who first grabbed my attention when I began learning about the history of art. Paintings by Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne, and not long after, the abstract works of Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky.