I'm curious about this trend in painting towards dark, hazy, moody scenes of banal objects. Feels like all the young artists are painting these fuzzy scenes, whether oil or acrylic, or doing abstract type drawings and including cybersigilism, like basically chrome tribal tattoos and neopagan themes fused with aesthetics they probably were only exposed to briefly in their childhoods, but you see it everywhere now.
I get the intention of the artist, but I'd be curious for a greater overview of what is going on in painting nowadays, cuz its making me feel old haha. I just don't get the current style. like 7 years ago it was airbrush, and I could wrap my head around that because of its clear connection to digital art. But now its fuzzy blurry soft and dark paintings and I don't know where its coming from. Is it just that the 90s and 2000's are in and the kids are bringing it back and its made its way into painting? Where does the sinister vibe come from? Cuz the 90s were pretty chill.
I is for Irony? Or S is for Straight faced irony? W is for What to paint? Or Kaka's White cube? (Or is that an K? I recently read that the white cube exhibition space was an invention of Hitler's.) If Legeti's intention is to provide an object to facilitate the viewer's personal projections, the object itself hardly matters. If she had simply affixed the objects she painted to Kaka's white walls for this exercise, she would have been treading on Duchamp's toes. How does painting them change the conversation?
I'm curious about this trend in painting towards dark, hazy, moody scenes of banal objects. Feels like all the young artists are painting these fuzzy scenes, whether oil or acrylic, or doing abstract type drawings and including cybersigilism, like basically chrome tribal tattoos and neopagan themes fused with aesthetics they probably were only exposed to briefly in their childhoods, but you see it everywhere now.
I get the intention of the artist, but I'd be curious for a greater overview of what is going on in painting nowadays, cuz its making me feel old haha. I just don't get the current style. like 7 years ago it was airbrush, and I could wrap my head around that because of its clear connection to digital art. But now its fuzzy blurry soft and dark paintings and I don't know where its coming from. Is it just that the 90s and 2000's are in and the kids are bringing it back and its made its way into painting? Where does the sinister vibe come from? Cuz the 90s were pretty chill.
I is for Irony? Or S is for Straight faced irony? W is for What to paint? Or Kaka's White cube? (Or is that an K? I recently read that the white cube exhibition space was an invention of Hitler's.) If Legeti's intention is to provide an object to facilitate the viewer's personal projections, the object itself hardly matters. If she had simply affixed the objects she painted to Kaka's white walls for this exercise, she would have been treading on Duchamp's toes. How does painting them change the conversation?