Twisted: Urban Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Paintings

Name: Twisted: Urban Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Paintings
Brand: Van Abbe Museum
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Twisted, Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting includes the Work of twelve international painters. A defining characteristic of these artists is their figurative, visual language. This is not so much a reference to a tangbyible reality, but rather to a reality that is artificial, otherworldly or fabricated. Some of the artists are interested in a reality mediated by video and computer games, television, film, advertising and other media expressions. Other artists use different references to achieve an artificial reality. In both cases it is a reality that is completely man-made, manipulated and synthetic; far removed from 'normal' reality. Many of the works are characterised by artifical use of colour, sampling of disparate elements, and petterns that are almost abstract. This creates a world that, on the one hand, tends to exalt its very impermanence and, on the other hand, has a disconcerting undertone. Each chapter spotlights one artist, offers an extensive array of visual material and furnishes an accompanying explicative text. An essay by Jaap Guldemond and Marente Bloemheuvel /curators at the Stedelijk Van Abbemusuem) provides a context for and an explanation of the principles and premisses of this theme.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 79
Publisher:: Van Abbe Museum
Publication Date:: 2001-03-01
Weight:: 998 g

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