showing that there is a final cause and that it involves evidence of a design. Greenberg's view has become one widely adopted by scholars, critics, and students to characterize the avant-garde in the pre-1945 period.
Various artists express their view of the artistic process and of their artistic expression as it relates to form and content, and in so doing they express similar ideas to those offered by Greenberg. Jackson Pollock, for instance, states of the connection between the medium and the expression,
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements. It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past cultu
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