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Meaning & Purpose Chapter 6

28 Tuesday Aug 2018

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Chapter 6 of my research book about the morality and politics of our time as seen through the subjects of representational art is now available.

What might it mean when artists break up surface reality?

Fragments and Instability

The postmodernists speak of deconstructing surface reality, arguing that representations no longer represent anything–that they are a self-generating realm of images, an endless surface with no underlying reality. I am more than likely twisting their terminology to describe the work of painters such as Jenny Saville, Ann Gale, Alex Kanevsky and France Jodoin.

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Meaning & Purpose Chapter 5

21 Tuesday Aug 2018

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Chapter 5 of my research book about the morality and politics of our time as seen through the subjects of representational art is now available.

Can we see what they do?

Powers of Observation

Painters who rely on observation take deeper looks at their subjects, more typically still life, interior and landscape. Josephine Halvorson seems to examine the surface of her subjects at a microscopic level; Catherine Murphy, Susan Jane Walp, and Gillian Pederson Kraag represent intensely personal approaches to painting perceptually.

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Meaning & Purpose Chapter 4

14 Tuesday Aug 2018

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Chapter 4 of my research book about the morality and politics of our time as seen through the subjects of representational art is now available.

What makes representational art matter? Technique or content?

What We Are Painting

I have examined the content of 21st -century representational art to ask what the choice of subjects tells us about what artists think is important. I am disregarding questions of technique or style to look at the possibility of creating meaning in our fractured age. While the increasing popularity of fantasy and imagined worlds as subjects for representational art suggests they offer meaning to many, I have never saved any such image for future consideration, so these subjects are not discussed.

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Meaning & Purpose Chapter 3

07 Tuesday Aug 2018

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Chapter 3 of my research book about the morality and politics of our time as seen through the subjects of representational art is now available.

Have modern ideas rendered representational art obsolete?

What Happened to the Traditional Subjects

Scientific rationalism is one of the reasons cited for the demise of traditional beliefs. Joseph Wright of Derby captured many gripping scenes of scientific exploration in the 18th century, such as An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, shown today at National Gallery, London.

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