Word: abstraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such respects, the show will do much to replace the "heroic" image of early modernism?the intransigents battling the Academy?with a cozier picture, in which pompier and avant-garde share the common ground of being figurative, of supplying comprehensible images to a public bored or intimidated by abstract...
...Certainly the past decade can claim as many lifestyle innovations and instances of artistic creativity as the '60s, probably more, but they seemed less radical, less revolutionary and tradition-shattering than their predecessors. Perhaps they were: painting, for instance, could not move much farther toward abstraction than the abstract expressionists had already taken it, nor could it become more impersonal or starkly realistic than the work of the pop artists a decade earlier...
There was very definitely a move from formal painting in the '70s. I think a couple of exhibitions trying to re-evaluate the abstract expressionist painting of the '50s brought to a whole new generation of painters the personal, frequently psycho-autobiographical, tenure or their art. In contrast to the cold quality of much of op art and the abstract art of Frank Stella which these young artist--now in their late '20s and early '30s--grew up with, the artists of the '70s turned back to the ideas of the abstract expressionists s models for a more personal...