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Hi all...
I wasn't going to start writing anything of any significance to this blog until my new 'comfy-to-sit-on-the-sofa-with' laptop arrives (hopefully later this week), but I was thinking something last night which I thought I would just jot down here before I forget it:
Question: In an age of instant communications and faultless reproductions of art, is it possible fora new movement in painting to happen?
Notice I specifically say 'painting' rather than 'art', as all sorts of new media movements have sprung up and will constantly do so - video installations, concept art, performance art, internactive internet applications, etc. etc. I would also include both 3D and 2D still digital art as new movements which encompass hordes of whole different 'schools' within themselves. What I am asking myself, however is, with 'traditional' 2D media - is it any longer possible to start a new movement, a new school of painting/drawing, or have we quite literally seen it all?
Has anything happened in painting since abstract expressionaism, moderism, impressionism, etc. or was the late 19th and the 20th century the last gasp of painting as an artform which could be in any way 'new'. When the impressionists first exhibited, there were gasps of horror - I'm guessing it was the same when Lichtenstein came along, or Pollock: - but what could we do now with paint that would be any different to everything which has gone before? Has everything already been tried ?
Discuss!
(Oh, and here's another picture, just in case all those words were too boring :-)
Encyclopeodia Xenobotanica Plate I : Digital : Copyright © 2005 by Martin Herbert
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Tags: Art, movements, painting, discussion, xenodream
Posted Feb. 19, 2008 3:53 am (permalink) by spiritvisions 10 comments
The whole thing is one single 3D fractal done with XenoDream. (Google it - it's good, and cheap :-) )
why would >> instant communications and faultless reproductions<< prevent a new movement from being born?
could you not argue that this would improve the chances rather than exclude them?
Not that they would prevent them - but make it less likely. In the days before mass media, the range of art to which people were exposed was much smaller. They were limited to what was available in the local market - i.e. 'peasant' art, in the churches (which would be of a certain age and uniform style) and in museums and large private houses if they happened to have access to such places. In post-Renaissance Europe the vast majority of art would have been figurative, representational, and bound by the constricts of the Church. In such an atmosphere anything different from the norm was a completely new experience for the viewer.
Today, pretty much everyone in the 'Western' world has been exposed to more or less every kind of art there has ever been, through TV, photos in magazinesx and books, and cheap commercially available prints. In this atmosphere it is very difficult to come up with something completely new (and yes, digital media, holograms. etc. etc. are different, but I am talking specifically about styles of painting and drawing). My question is, is it not only difficult, but actualy impossible?
so you mean that in effect a smaller cohort were choosing what went forward as a stream typical of a particular time?
and that the size of today's cohort precludes consensus?
as well as the perceived impossibility of actually coming up with somethign new... (not sre that this one carries weight - mankind has been surprising with new imaginations and inventions since time began..)
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Feb. 19, 2008 3:19 pm