Mark Tansey, detail, *Four Forbidden Senses (Taste, Sound, Smell, Touch)* (1982), Oil on four canvas panels Schnabel’s massive Self-Portrait in Andy’s Shadow (1987), painted on the artist’s signature broken plates and crockery, offers nostalgic and ironic self-presentation while paying homage to cooly sardonic Andy Warhol, whose date-of-death is inscribed on the painting’s surface. Salle’s Pound Notes (1986) is a pastiche of found imagery that nevertheless suggests a dramatic, if fractured, narrative. By the early 1980s, however, neo-expressionists such as Basquiat, Schnabel and Salle had returned figurative art to the aesthetic fray while injecting a new sense of ironic detachment - appropriating, rather than inhabiting, “authentic” painterly strategies.įor example, Basquiat’s Untitled (Skull) (1981) is at once a strikingly expressive semi-self portrait and a skillful catalog of painterly devices. In the1970s, Eckmann explained, artists challenged the primacy of traditional forms such as painting and sculpture, emphasizing instead the “anti-aesthetics” of conceptual art, process art and earth art. “Taken together, these different positions demonstrate the complete arrival of the postmodern in the art world.” Eckmann, Ph.D., curator of the Gallery of Art. “The decade of the 1980s is characterized by the coexistence of a diverse range of artistic practices,” said Sabine M. “ American Art of the 1980s presents a rare opportunity to explore themes and trends not otherwise available in St. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts and director of the Gallery of Art. “Over the last four decades, Eli and Edythe Broad have built one of the world’s most important collections of modern and contemporary art, including works by some of our provocative artists,” said Mark S. The Gallery of Art is located in Steinberg Hall, near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards. (The Gallery of Art is closed Mondays.) The exhibit is free and open to the public. 23, in the Gallery of Art and remains on view through April 18. Keith Haring, *Red Room* (1988), Acrylic on canvasĪmerican Art of the 1980s opens with a reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The exhibition includes 14 large-scale paintings and sculptures by 11 celebrated and sometimes controversial artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, Jack Goldstein, Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, David Salle, Julian Schnabel and Mark Tansey. Louis will revisit those years with American Art of the 1980s: Selections From the Broad Collections. In January, the Gallery of Art at Washington University in St. And little, upon reflection, was as it seemed. Neo-expressionists jostled for theoretical (and commercial) position with abstract painters, installation and performance artists, appropriationists and others. The art world of the 1980s was a place of artistic diversity and aesthetic contention.
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