It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed. Jerry Saltz artcenturycezanne share on social
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. Jerry Saltz artbequeathbuddha share on social
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money. Jerry Saltz artaudiencedecade share on social
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. Jerry Saltz abstractlowpaint Change image and share on social
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. Jerry Saltz abstractionbeingdecipher Change image and share on social
We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions. Jerry Saltz allowartbehave share on social
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. Jerry Saltz artbarcollection Change image and share on social
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. Jerry Saltz artdeathgeorgia Change image and share on social
I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter. Jerry Saltz mattermediumstyle Change image and share on social
'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing. Jerry Saltz buildingcentercorner share on social