The document discusses the history and evolution of painting from the 1970s onward. It outlines several major painting genres and movements that emerged during this period, including Photorealism, New Image painting, and Bad Painting. It also discusses the expansion of painting practices to include new mediums, subjects, and approaches. The document examines how painting has become less bound by traditional categories and more diverse and pluralistic in contemporary art.

1. Expanded Painting

2. ‘ Abstract’ Self-Critical Autonomous Unique Object ‘ Optical’ Representational Post-Critical Contingent ‘ Mass Customised’ Context Postconceptual Morris Louis Alpha-Theta , 1961 Acrylic resin on canvas, 104½ x 147½ inches Takashi Murakami Flower Ball 2005- Polymers, various dimensions

3. Art & Language Painting as a practice ? Painting as a tactic ? Painting as a strategy ?

4. Postconceptual Painting and its Legacies Painting genres provide the contexts and stimulus necessary for postconceptual practice. Major exhibitions initiating three major genres since the ’70s: Photorealism New Image Bad Painting Wim Delvoye Tatooed Pigs 2000

5. Photorealism Originates in 1968 Whitney show Twenty-two Realists Prominent figures of the ’60s and ’70s: Malcolm Morley Robert Bechtle > Chuck Close Richard Estes Audrey Flack Duane Hanson

6. Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection Defined Photorealism as follows: : 1. The Photo-Realist uses the camera and photograph to gather information. 2. The Photo-Realist uses a mechanical or semimechanical means to transfer the information to the canvas. 3. The Photo-Realist must have the technical ability to make the finished work appear photographic. 4. The artist must have exhibited work as a Photo-Realist by 1972 to be considered one of the central Photo-Realists. 5. The artist must have devoted at least five years to the development and exhibition of Photo-Realist work.

7. Alan Michael Cars and Houses (2008)

8. Audrey Flack Marilyn (Vanitas) 96"x96", 1977, Oil on Canvas Gerhard Richter Man Shot Down 2, 1988 Oil on Canvas

9. Fang Lijun, Series 2 No. 2 , (1991-1992) Chuck Close, Leslie/Fingerprint (1986)

10. New Image New Image Painting , Whitney, NYC (1978); A New Spirit in Painting (1981); Royal Academy, London Zeitgiest (1982); Martin Gropisu Bau, West Berlin

11. New Image as International Movement? USA - New Image (1978-) UK – ‘New Glasgow Boys’ ( New Image Glasgow 1985) Federal Republic of Germany - Neue Wilde (Late 1970s-) Italy – Transavantgardia (1976-_ Soviet Union - Sots Art / Apt Art (1972-1992) China – ’85 New Wave (1976-89)

12. David Salle My Subjectivity 1981 Julian Schnabel Bob's World (1980) Oil, wax, bondo, ceramic plates and horns on wood and canvas

15. Malcolm Morley, Farewell to Crete (1984)

18. Adrian Wiszniewski Attack of a Right Wing Nature

22. Innenraum (1981) Sulamith (1983)

23. Achille Bonita Olivia Transavantgardia, Aperto ‘80 Bonita Achille Oliva, Flash Art, 7/80, "Transavantgardia" "The missing pride of the conceptual artist's work, the elitist behavior of the artist who was playing on the amazement of the public and on the element of surprise, are being replaced by the humility of creative, accessible, and real work. Art becomes again direct expression, leaving behind it the feeling of guilt for being permanent, which was a symptom of contact with the world. The artist becomes again maniacal and Mannerist in his own mania."

24. Sandro Chia Enzo Cucchi

25. Sots Art Apt art paintings in the Soviet Union Sots Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. 1986 Curated by Margarita Tupitsyn Ily Kabakov The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment , 1968-1996

27. Alexander Kosolapov Gorby , 1989 Acrylic, silkscreen, canvas. 68x56 inches Alexander Kosolapov Malevich Country 1987 Oil, canvas. 70x54 inches

28. China post Mao-1989 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution China Avant-garde, National Gallery of Art in Beijing in 1989 marked end of the New Wave Currently being revisted in shows such as:

29. Warhol by Wang Guangyi Bloodline: Three comrades by Zhang Xiaogang

30. Bad Painting ‘ Bad’ is slang for ‘good’ Bad signifies an attitude towards painting…. Paul Thek (1985)

31. Bad Painting (New Museum, NYC 1/14/78 - 2/28/78 ) “ a rejection of the concept of progress per se. . . . freedom to do and to be whatever you want.." – "'Bad' Painting" catalogue. Asger Jorn Philip Guston

32. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

36. Glen O’Brien’s TV Party (1978-82) Co-hosted by Chris Stein (Blondie) and filmmaker Amos Poe on Manhattan public access television. In 1978, two revolutionary trends emerged in New York City, public access cable TV and punk rock. These two phenomena came together spectacularly in Glenn O'Brien's TV Party. O'Brien recruited his pal Chris Stein, the guitarist of Blondie, as his co-host, fellow Factory kid Walter Steding as leader of The TV Party Orchestra, and underground film director Amos Poe as director and the rest, as you'll see, was history. Hipsters tuned in to follow the antics of the TV Party gang and such guests as Iggy Pop, David Bowie, P-Funk's George Clinton, The Clash's Mick Jones, Kid Creole, Klaus Nomi, as well as performances from acts like Tuxedo Moon, the Brides of Funkenstein, Alex Chilton, and more http://www.tvparty.tv/

37. Times Square Show, 1980. In June 1980, more than a hundred artists installed their work in an empty massage parlor near Times Square. Organized by Colab, the Times Square Show included graffiti artists, feminist artists, political artists, Xerox artists, performance artists, and everyone in between.

38. "New York/New Wave" held at PS 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources (1981).

41. Basqiuat cover for K-Rob vs Rammellzzee (pictured right)

44. Haring chalk drawing in NYC Transit Haring installation at at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1982

45. Patti Astor’s Fun Gallery, 1983

46. Kenny Scharf

47. Kenny Scharf at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, SoHo, 1983

51. Mark Kostabi – Name That Painting

52. John Kilduff - Let’s Paint TV

54. Walker Art Center FEBRUARY 10-MAY 6, 2001 PAINTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD “ Clearly, this medium is no longer bound by the traditional categories of abstraction, figuration, portraiture, or landscape, or even by its conventional definition as paint on canvas.” Paul Thek installation at Walker Art Center

55. FRANZ ACKERMANN - GERMANY PAUL McCARTHY - U.S. HALUK AKAKÇE - TURKEY/U.S. LUCY McKENZIE - SCOTLAND FRANCIS ALŸS - BELGIUM/MEXICO JULIE MEHRETU - ETHIOPIA/U.S. KEVIN APPEL - U.S. TAKASHI MURAKAMI - JAPAN MARCEL BROODTHAERS - BELGIUM NADER - IRAN/GERMANY JOHN CURRIN - U.S. CHRIS OFILI - ENGLAND MARLENE DUMAS - SOUTH AFRICA/ THE NETHERLANDS HÉLIO OITICICA - BRAZIL ANDREAS GURSKY - GERMANY LAURA OWENS - U.S. EBERHARD HAVEKOST - GERMANY MICHAEL RAEDECKER - THE NETHERLANDS/ENGLAND ARTURO HERRERA - VENEZUELA/U.S. THOMAS SCHEIBITZ - GERMANY MIKE KELLEY - U.S. THOMAS SCHÜTTE - GERMANY MARTIN KIPPENBERGER - GERMANY RUDOLF STINGEL - ITALY/U.S. UDOMSAK KRISANAMIS - THAILAND/U.S. HIROSHI SUGITO - JAPAN JIM LAMBIE - SCOTLAND PAUL THEK - U.S. MARGHERITA MANZELLI - ITALY RICHARD WRIGHT - SCOTLAND

56. Walker Art Center FEBRUARY 10-MAY 6, 2001 PAINTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD “ photograph (Andreas Gursky), a walk through a city (Francis Alÿs), club culture-inspired (Jim Lambie), applied directly to a wall (Richard Wright, Franz Ackermann). portraiture (Marlene Dumas, Margherita Manzelli) the televisual (Eberhard Havekost) merging of art deco and the cybernetic (Haluk Akakçe). Abstraction as techno-organic topography (Udomsak Krisanamis), cartoon iconography (Arturo Herrera), geometry of architecture with flatness of the picture plane (Kevin Appel).” Doctrine of pluralism – painting as a non-discipline. Painting is boundary-less… it can be anything….

57. Raises a number of questions: How useful is this pluralism as a means to think about painting (or contemporary art)? Do painters have something in common simply because they paint? What about the particular sensuous, performative or theatrical qualities of the medium? What are the ‘limit conditions’ of the frame? Richard Wright Not titled, 2005 (Currently Turner Prize Nominee, eca Graduate)

58. Elizabeth Peyton Marlene Dumas

59. The Fabulous 5 (Fab 5 Freddy and Lee Quinones), Campell’s Soup , photo by Martha Cooper 1979

60. Lucy McKenzie Lucy Stein

61. Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska Nova Popularna LP Bar opened in Warsaw during May 2003,

62. Blood ‘n’ Feathers Jo Robertson and Lucy Stein at Collective Gallery

63. Lucy Stein with Rosie McGurn at Gimpel Fils, London, 2009

64. Lucy Stein (curator) Purpling at Gimpel Fils, London, 2009

65. Ellen Munro The Object Is Not Important As Long As There Is (2007) Embassy and Athens Biennial, 2007 Kate Owens Affair at Styles (pink & blue) (2008) Travelling Gallery, Frieze Art Fair and Zoo, 2009

66. Rabiya Choudhry Featured in Prague Biennale 2 Expanded Painting (selected by Neil Mulholland) (2005), Czech Republic. Katie Orton Waitress (2007) Generator Projects, Dundee. Represented in Saatchi Collection.

67. Dundee Contemporary Arts Altered States of Paint 5 July 2008 - 7 September 2008 Applying Painting at the Edge of the World taxonomy: photograph (Till Gerhard ), a walk through a city (???????????????????), club culture-inspired (Neil Clements ), applied directly to a wall (Rabiya Choudhry ). portraiture (Jutta Koether; Rabiya Choudhry) the televisual (Andreas Dobler ) merging of art deco and the cybernetic (Andreas Dobler ). Abstraction as techno-organic topography (Angela de la Cruz), cartoon iconography (Jutta Koether; Rabiya Choudhry), geometry of architecture with flatness of the picture plane (Andreas Dobler ). Does this work?

68. Altered States of Paint applied a more ideosyncratic approach; one based on observation of a shared haptic sensuousness. Paintings that are united by psychedelic content or psych ‘visonary’ approach. Painting is not boundary-less, it can be examined by comparing like-with-like...

69. Open Eye Club

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