Visual Arts Studio 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Watercolor Painting, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism
16 Jan 2017
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Privileging the artists hand and gesture essential to the creation of an artwork. Art divorced of any extraneous content that does not refer to the purity of the medium. Avant-garde art is perpetually improving and advancing, responding to the. Art transcending time and place a universal art, understood by all. Painting has been purported to have died in the (cid:883)97(cid:882)"s, the (cid:883)99(cid:882)"s and just. Is painting dead? recently in the new millennium. It has been more difficult for artists to make paintings at certain time in the history of art. Certain times where it has been more accepted rather than others. The idea that there is not one idea, position or opinion. Pluralism maintains there is no one all encompassing viewpoint as to how art should be made. Pluralism is an effective tool in understanding the breadth of contemporary painting. The relationship between representation and abstraction is another method of understanding contemporary painting.
