ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY PAINTING
Abstraction
Improvisation or mathematical procedure … blends of “real” and “abstract?”
Materials
As subject matter (texture, found objects, assemblage, or digital)
Art History (Europe)
Art which refers to European art history in theme and composition
Art History (Not Europe)
Global culture, “Third World,” folk art, “outsider” art, children
The Body
Allegory (figure) or Individual Identity (in portraits)
Psychology
Dream, Myth, Archetype, Shamanistic traditions...
Landscape
Fact, Fantasy, Utopia. Abstraction; Nature Untamed, or Nature Destroyed
Politics - society
Sociology, history, war and peace
Politics - identity
Gender and race
Politics – technology
Science as subject or as procedure
Pop Art
Low Culture and High Culture
Public Spaces
Institutional art, installation, time-based, community collaboration
LIGHT
• dramatic light (brilliant with hard cast shadows)
• dreamy light (foggy with soft cast shadows)
• mystical light (glowing from within)
• spiritual light (streaming down from heaven)
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