An abstract painter, Smith was a member of
the Radical Painting movement in the 1980s, seeking to distill painting to its essence.
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Their timeless art samples past styles and
movements, producing
radical new interpretations that reshape the ideas of traditional
painting.
His photos of the day - to - day life of gangs in the Bronx and the
radical black liberation
movement the Black Panthers are much more than a documentary illustration of a given period in time: they represent an insider's view, one which
paints the portrait of the contrasts in American society.
It sees, in the passage from Chardin's world of objects to Rembrandt's contemplative
paintings, a
movement toward the
radical interiority for which Proust would later become widely celebrated as a novelist.
Sitting on a gridded bench by Superstudio, the
radical Italian architecture firm, is an iPad looping a video by the Venezuelan painter Eugenio Espinosa, performing with a gridded fabric; a
painting of repeated amoeboid forms by Claude Viallat, the grand man of the French
movement Supports / Surfaces, continues the play between repetition and creation.
The critic and founding editor - in - chief of Artnet magazine for 16 years, he has chronicled the «
radical masquerade» of the avant - garde, heralding new talent, skewering the deserving, and identifying epochal shifts in the art scene, from his pronouncement that «there are no art
movements, only market
movements» to his lament about the rise of «zombie formalism» in contemporary
painting today.
The continuation of abstract expressionism, color field
painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism, abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and other late 20th - century Modernist
movements in both
painting and sculpture continued through the first decade of the 21st century and constitute
radical new directions in those mediums.
There are aspects of the
radical art
movement that could be associated with the Action
Painting of 1950s New York; however, the aesthetics of Gutai evolved independently as an outcome of postwar Japan.
Clyfford Still fused the two predominant
painting styles of the
radical postwar
movement, combining the gestural method with the famed color fields technique.
Drawing from various postwar art
movements and developments: Op Art, Washington Color School, Monochrome
Painting, as well as European modes of art making, such as Support / Surface and
Radical Painting, Mark has created a diffuse, yet particularly American body of work.
Presenting a diverse group of artists and activists who lived and worked at the intersections of avant - garde art worlds,
radical political
movements, and profound social change, the exhibition features a wide array of work, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art, as well as photography,
painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
A founding member of the Brazilian Neo-Concrete
movement, Clark proposed a
radical approach to thinking about
painting by treating its pictorial surface as if it were a three - dimensional architectural space.
It is
radical for an artist who was at the forefront of the plastic
movement in the 1960s, ahead of the semiotic curve in dioramas in the 1970s, and breaking ground in abstract
painting in the 1990s, to make a 180 - degree return to representational
painting after 2000 — with the most beautiful imagery of his career.
Yet I do think that abstract expressionism and the
movements that reacted to it in the 60s attracted far more attention from the general public than the equally significant work of representational artists who were
painting during that period, creating work that evolved naturally from earlier tradition where AbEx and other later
movements appeared to be more
radical leaps.