Andreas Gursky.MUSEUM OF MODERN ART modern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture). Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of Andreas Gursky distinguished himself in the '80s with panoramic landscapes bearing the telltale signs of the postindustrial world. In the '90s, his focus expanded to include frenetic fre·net·ic or phre·net·ic (fr  -n t  k)adj. 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, 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 ArtsReacting against the formal excesses and raw emotionalism of abstract expressionism, the practitioners of minimal art (also sometimes called ABC art) strove to focus attention on the object as an object, reducing its historical and expressive content to the bare minimum., 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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