In his essay “American Action Painters”, Rosenberg write that Pollock, by turning painting into a series of actions, had “eliminated the separation between art and life.” - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 108, Zettel 121
Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 101, Zettel 120
..it was Pollock who, according to even to de Kooning, “really broke the ice.” Pollock proved to be by far, the strongest personality of his generation. As de Kooning put it: “Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne dd it. Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again. (Galenson 2009) - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 101, Zettel 120
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science, Eric Kandel, pg 87, Zettel 116
The art critic Clement Greenberg divided the abstract Expressionist Painters into two groups (1961,1962): the gestural painters de Kooning and Pollock, and the color-filed painter Rothko, Morris Louis, and Barnett Newman. However, as the art historian Robert Rosenblum points out, this distinction is less important than the artist’s common pursuit of the sublime (1961) - Reductionism in Art and Brina Science, Eric Kandel, pg 87, Zettel 116