Andreas Gursky.MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (1955) is a German photographer known for the highly textured feel of his enormous photographs often using a high point of view. Gursky received a strong influence from his teachers, Hilla and Bernd Becher, who are known for their distinctive method of distinguished himself in the '80s with panoramic landscapes bearing the telltale signs of the postindustrial post·in·dus·tri·al adj. Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows. Adj. 1. world. In the '90s, his focus expanded to include frenetic scenes of late capitalist life, with richly colored, often digitally manipulated images of stock exchanges, hotel lobbies, and raves. "Gursky's photographs just knock your socks off," comments the show's curator, Peter Galassi. "He sustains a competition with painting. His is the same art world as Gerhard Richter's, influenced by German Romanticism For the general context, see Romanticism. In the philosophy, art, and culture of German-speaking countries, German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. , American abstraction from Pollock to Minimalism minimalism, schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity. Minimalism in the Visual Arts , Pop and Conceptual art." Comprising some forty works, Gursky's first major US retrospective promises several pictures never before publicly exhibited (see articles, p. 104). Feb. 28-May 15. |
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