14 Facts About Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic.

Harold Rosenberg coined the term Action Painting in 1952 for what was later to be known as abstract expressionism.

Harold Rosenberg was born on February 2,1906, in Brooklyn, New York.

From 1946, Harold Rosenberg served as a program consultant for the Ad Council until 1973.

Harold Rosenberg died age 72 on July 11,1978, at his summer home in Springs, New York, from complications of a stroke and pneumonia.

Harold Rosenberg wrote several books on art theory, and monographs on Willem de Kooning, Saul Steinberg, and Arshile Gorky.

Harold Rosenberg wrote mockingly of mass culture's efforts to consolidate and control the intricacies of human needs:.

Harold Rosenberg first used the term "action painting" in the essay "American Action Painters," published in the December 1952 issue of ARTnews.

Harold Rosenberg modeled the term "action painting" on his intimate knowledge of Willem de Kooning's working process.

Harold Rosenberg saw the artist's task as a heroic exploration of the most profound issues of personal identity and experience in relation to the large questions of the human condition.

Harold Rosenberg wrote "The Bird for Every Bird", a brief poem of three stanzas and thirteen lines with violent imagery.

Harold Rosenberg rediscovered it roughly one year later and decided to rework its basic elements.

Harold Rosenberg is the subject of a painting by Elaine de Kooning.

Harold Rosenberg was a mentor to the critic, essayist, reporter, and novelist Renata Adler.