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| In the SMAK there were some examples of painting "expanded" beyond the easel picture. The key text is the 1948 essay "The Crisis of the Easel Picture," in which Pollock is mentioned only once but is everywhere present, that announces the advent of "the 'decentralized,"polyphonic,' all-over picture which, with a surface knit together of a multiplicity of identical or similar elements, repeats itself without strong variation from one end of the canvas to the other and dispenses, apparently, with beginning, middle, and ending. In his brief review of Pollock's 1943 show at Guggenheim's Art of This Century, Clement Greenberg had spoken disapprovingly of certain paintings veering between "the intensity of the easel picture and the blandness of the mural. |
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