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Jane Dickson: The Figure: Another Side of Modernism 4 June 2000 - 14 January 2001
<b><font class="blue">Jane Dickson</b></font>
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<b><I>The Figure: Another Side of Modernism</b></I>
04 June 2000 - 14 January 2001
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York
This exhibition examines the dynamic range of paintings of the human figure over the past 50 years. The show, curated by Lilly Wei, includes a wealth of artworks that demonstrate figure painting's influential and timeless significance.
130 works sketch the trajectory of figuration over the last five decades, poignantly illustrating how painting has responded to shifts in cultural attitudes and artistic styles and how media and technology have affected it.
Weith the reintroduction of the figure by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, <I>The Figure</I> follows the evolution of this genre and its interconnection with non-objective art over five decades, concluding with the vibrant pluralism of the 1990s.
<I>The Figure</I> explores pivotal movements in American painting such as Surrealism, Neo-Expressionism, Pop Art and Postmodernism, as well as addresses important regional movements like the Chicago and West Coast schools. Ultimately, <I>The Figure</I> emphatically illustrates that representational painting remains unexhausted in its richness unabated.
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