Title: long watch
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Artist: N/A
Period: Contemporary
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Origin: N/A
Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 2008
Item ID: 1654
oil on canvas underpainting materials include acrylic paint and acrylic gel medium
Link: http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=875
Whether using landscapes to comment on the state of the world or the state of painting itself, artists are finding ways to reinvent the genre and reexamine its relevance.
Robert Storr, senior curator of painting and sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, finds that landscape does seem to be on the minds of quite a few artists at the moment. "The biggest division I see is between artists who are making a kind of symbolist or storytelling painting with the landscape as the setting—and it’s usually a play on the peaceable-kingdom version of the world made toxic or somehow ominous—and those who use landscape to explore how the expectations of the viewer are brought into play and then are not satisfied at all in conventional ways."
