ART 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Frieze Art Fair, Robert Mapplethorpe, Damien Hirst
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Makes art more open o a variety of concerns and domesticates the art. Interested in bringing the domestic circumstances to shaped paintings. References to comic books with a balloon play gure coming out of something exasperating noise. Uid pattern imitating organic things in the natural world. In uenced by tang period philosopher and painter cold stone". Reaches east and west in his art. Went to germany after wall came down. Ability to work in a different variety of modes. Trained in a variety of different modes in east germany including traditional modes. The modern age is not about one thing its about multiplicity. A lot to regret about germany"s history after wwii. He sees what can make germany great is also its downfall. Name of towns attached to the picture. Decimated landscape destroyed by war or as fertile land about to be grown. Also part of the neo german expressionist movement.
