Here Sayer represents them by selecting the most washed out, pop versions of these characters: the title of the exhibition and
subject matter of the paintings refer to the popular Broadway musical «Wicked,» and a sculpture of Frankenstein's head is the hollywood version.
Not exact matches
This important, nearly unknown piece
of writing, titled
Subject Matter of the Artist: An Analysis
of Contemporary
Subject Matter in
Painting as Derived from Interviews with those Artists
Referred to as the Intrasubjectivists, is the centerpiece
of this new collection.
Robert Goodnough (1917 - 2010), then a New York University graduate student and an artist deeply involved with these issues, responded to the situation in a 1950 research paper, «
Subject Matter of the Artist: An Analysis
of Contemporary
Subject Matter in
Painting as Derived from Interviews with Those Artists
Referred to as the Intrasubjectivists.»
With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront
of American
painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often
referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional
subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.
During the mid-1970s, Richter abandoned all traces
of representational art and began to create a style
of abstract
painting completely devoid of subject - matter - a style referred to by the umbrella term «Neo-Expressionism» or sometimes «New Image Painting
painting completely devoid
of subject -
matter - a style
referred to by the umbrella term «Neo-Expressionism» or sometimes «New Image
PaintingPainting».
When Minter talks about surface, she's not just
referring to the seemingly superficial desire for beauty — she's also talking about
paint, and even those who may not embrace her
subject matter can't deny the allure
of her materials.
A body
of painting will be seen as important for what it does rather than what it says it
refers to: a change in
subject matter or reference is scarcely change at all.