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Mark Tansey’s oil painting Triumph of the New York School (1984; collection of the artist) sardonically portrays the “war” in the art world between the School of Paris and the New York School, as well as the symbolic victory of the latter in the mid-20th century, due in large part to the dominance and advocacy of critic Clement Greenberg. Pablo Picasso is portrayed as a “general” of the School of Paris in the process of surrendering to Greenberg, a “general” of the New York School. Henri Matisse, a member of the aging School of Paris, stands behind Picasso, while up-and-coming New Yorkers such as the painter Jackson Pollock and the critic Harold Rosenberg look on behind Greenberg.
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