Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter are among the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. All of them worked with everyday imagery and used photography and technologies of mechanical mass reproduction, examining the status of the artwork in the age of mass media. All of them had a strong and unique sense of the Zeitgeist and were not afraid to embrace it. These qualities enabled them to show painting a way out of what was then thought of as the dead of abstraction.publiarq.com
I am interested in the chemical effects of paints, the alchemy of color (...) which arouses a desire for the unknown mystery.-Sigmar Polke I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftmanslike but technological, smooth, and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.-Gerhard Richter My image is a statement of the symbol of the harsh and materialistic objects on which America is built. It is a projection that can be bought and sold, the practical but
impermanent symbols that sustain us.-Andy Warhol. This book is an expanded version of the book In the Power of Painting: Warhol, Polke, Richter, Twombly, Marden, Bleckner, which addressed the questions and the status of painting today. To further examine the sensibilities that shape the work of these three artists and that set them apart from the other painters of the first book, Daros Collection decided to dedicate a volume of its own to these painters. It features a much broader selection of images that allows the viewer to study the work of each of these artists in depth and to saliently compare their works. An introduction Pop and Much More outlines the common concerns of these artists and their relation to Pop Art. Three in-depth essays elucidate the work of each artist. An indispensable book for everyone interested in the Pop Art and its aftermath and the status of the artwork in the age of mass media.publiarq.com
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