Saturday, December 22, 2012

About Painting




What does the age-old practice of painting amount to at the beginning of the 21st century? What happened to the generally accepted idea of art as representation in modern art?
Bell writes incisively and clearly about the issues that have dominated painting in the last two hundred years. 'What is Painting' is a remarkable achievement, an accessible inspired account of artistic thinking and practice, and of the complexities facing those who make, are puzzled by and write about contemporary art. More understanding modern art, or in making art themselves.
It presents a selection of artworks made since on an average including a number of recent acquisitions and many works displayed for the first time since the Museum's reopening. A variety of responses to the question "What is painting?" are proposed in loose chronological sequence, ranging from ironic to sincere; from figurative to abstract; and from an embrace and creative re imagining of painting's possibilities to a critical engagement with its limits.

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