Although they worked independently, they were individually tackling
the same painting genres - portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and still life.
Not exact matches
So traditionalism in
painting repeats the
same old themes of portraiture,
genre, seascape and landscape in ever sleeker forms; it repeats; it does not move.
I agree with you, back then games were constantly evolving and devs were coming up with new and interesting game mechanics and sub
genres to keep you interested, and you were genuinely excited to see a sequel because you knew it was going to at least add something new and interesting to the mix, now devs are so afraid of loosing the fanbase most sequels are the
same game with a new coat of
paint and setting.
At the
same time, I'm greatly interested in the concerns of perceptual art, a
genre of
painting I adore not leastwise for it's inclusiveness (one needn't have a knowledge of art history to enjoy Op - art), but also for the way its static images engage the viewer in the conscious act of looking.»
Painting possesses the
same ability as any other medium, to inspire and collaborate with other
genres and mediums to create new works.
Appearing as an independent
genre around the Europe in the
same years, it is impossible to discern who first developed and practiced it in
painting.
At the
same time, Botero also emulates several iconographic types and
genres of Latin American
painting (portraits of crowned nuns, ex votos) as well as masters (especially Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco).
This lateral movement across time and
genre begins to account for how an installation and a
painting may have come to mean the
same thing; not in the sense of their most literal physicality, but in the demands they place on the viewer and the ways they interact with history and the physical world around them.
The artist engages in a complex visual legacy that stretches across multiple
genres, as the
painting references its own source material while at the
same time paying homage to the comic - book appropriation of earlier artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.