Late Modernist Painting and Sculpture in The 21st Century
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Bridget Riley, 1990
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Brice Marden, 1992-1993
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Anthony Caro, 1996
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Peter Halley, 1998
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Ronnie Landfield, 1999
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Malcolm Morley, 2000
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Jenny Saville, 2004
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Sean Scully, 2004
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Yan Pei-Ming, 2005 Contemporary painting from China
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Richard Serra, 2006
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John Baeder, 2007
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Anish Kapoor, 2008
At the beginning of the 21st century contemporary painting, contemporary sculpture and contemporary art in general continues in several contiguous modes, characterized by the idea of pluralism. The "crisis" in painting, sculpture and current art and current art criticism today is brought about by pluralism. There is no consensus, nor need there be, as to a representative style of the age. There is an anything goes attitude that prevails; an "everything going on", and consequently "nothing going on" syndrome; this creates an aesthetic traffic jam with no firm and clear direction and with every lane on the artistic superhighway filled to capacity. Consequently magnificent and important works of art continue to be made albeit in a wide variety of styles and aesthetic temperaments, the marketplace being left to judge merit.
Hard-edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, Photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, Lyrical Abstraction, pop art, op art, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, Collage, Intermedia painting, Assemblage painting, digital painting, Postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, Shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, Landscape painting, Portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions in painting at the beginning of the 21st century. The New European Painting of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, with painters like Gerhard Richter, Bracha Ettinger and Luc Tuymans, has opened a complex and interesting dialogue with the legacy of American Color Field and Lyrical Abstraction on the one hand and figurality on the other hand.
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