Those artists have indeed made art meaningful to a much broader public – bringing a whole new meaning to maximalism. Although born in the 1900s, Bacon produced some of the most avant garde 20th century paintings. (Detail) By Francis Bacon, whose disturbing style of painting combines surrealist and expressionist imagery.
1960s to the mid-1970s that included artists associated with. Although his prediction did not come to pass as he imagined, P&D fostered a more pluralistic community of makers. By Damien Hirst, one of the most famous postmodernist artists. the art critic Robert Pincus-Witten to describe a major current in American art from the mid.
In 1977, the critic John Perreault conjectured that Pattern & Decoration might become "more an art of the people than most forms of social realism". By embracing decorative traditions, sometimes realized through craft, Kozloff and her fellow P&D artists transformed a kind of contrarian avant-gardism – a game of Modernist one-upmanship – into a sincere bid for aesthetic inclusiveness.
As Kozloff later recalled, "pattern painting was a reaction against the pieties of modernist thinking." Moreover she saw "the politics of art as connected with larger politics" including discrimination against women and minorities. But the truth is that, with a few notable exceptions (such as the zany sculptures of Lucas Samaras), the art world remained stubbornly closed-minded.
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Coming a full decade after Venturi's book and Warhol's exhibit, Pattern & Design should by all rights have been retrograde.
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