New
Image painting preferred imagery to interpretation, subjectivity to formal structures, painting to experimental media, and pleasure to confrontation.
Not exact matches
She
prefers to
paint on to a photography - based
image — this is where new and strange formal challenges are still to be found.
Though one of them
paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who
prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.
So while New
Image Painting may not change much in the tastes of an art market that
prefers its signifiers empty and flexible, the fact remains that the exhibition's authors — its curators and, presumably, its artists — are taking the problems of the market seriously as a cultural force.
Paintings fuse the weirdness and kitsch of the Chicago Imagists with the
painting chops of the old masters in an exhibition that seems particularly rewarding for viewers who
prefer to get lost in
images rather than read related research documents and wordy wall labels.
However, unlike Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, Thiebaud worked from life, not from media
images, and his engagement was evident in his loose brushstroke, whereas a hard - edge
painting style, signifying mechanical reproduction, was
preferred by many Pop artists.