Art Of The Day Weekly
#416 - from 4 February 2016 to 10 February 2016
Today's art
From Alechinsky to Warhol, 54 biographies help define art from the postwar period to our day. All the artists started to produce in the period between the two wars, except for Fernand Léger (born in 1881), the unexpected troublemaker of the XIXth century while neither Picasso nor Matisse or even Duchamp were chosen. After abstract art with Pollock and Soulages and pop art, with Warhol and Erró, the key values seem to be work on the human body, with Orlan, gigantic installations with Christo or Serra, graffiti with Haring or JonOne and –what else?- speculation with Hirst, Koons and Murakami.
• L’art contemporain (in French), by Eloi Rousseau, Larousse, 2015, 240 p., €25
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