New European Painting emerged in the 1980s and reached a critical point of major distinction and influence in the 1990sChris Dercon (ed.), 1980-1996 in: Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp.496-561. with painters like Gerhard Richter,Gerhard Richter. Atlas. D.A.P., NY, 2006.Stefan Germer, "Des souvenirs inoppotuns," in: Jean-Paul Ameline, Brigitte Leal, Marc Bormand and Chris Dercon (eds.), Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp. 544-547. Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and Bracha L. EttingerBrian Massumi and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Drawing Papers n.24. The Drawing Center, NY, 2001Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher (eds.), Women Artists at the Millennium. Cambridge Massachusetts: October Books, MIT Press, 2006Griselda Pollock, "Rencontre avec l'histoire," in: Jean-Paul Ameline, Brigitte Leal, Marc Bormand and Chris Dercon (eds.), Face a l'Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou / Flammarion, 1996, pp. 535-540. whose paintings have established and continue to create a new dialogue between the historical archive, American Abstraction and figuration.Pollock, Griselda, "Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in the Era of Trauma." In: EurAmerica. Vol.40 n.4: 829-886. 2010. The major new European painters of this era show strong engagements with painful personal and general history, as well as shared history; its memory and its oblivion; and with life under the shadow of World War II, utilizing research in new and old materials, photography and oil painting.
Development These were followed by painters like Luc Tuymans, Marlene DumasSofie Van Loo, Gorge(l). The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008Lisa gabrielle Mark (ed.) and Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerpen, 2006 and Miriam Cahn. A third wave came with artists like Neo Rauch, Michaël Borremans and Chris Ofili. Neo-expressionism and other related movements in painting have emerged in the final two decades of the 20th century in Europe and in the United States, but this New Painting is not expressionist. Rather it is a renovative kind of abstraction and figuration that relates to the parallel practice of a turning into art of personal and historical photographic archives.Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Bosse and Carolyne Christove-Bakargiev, La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire / City, Garden, Memory. Villa Medici, Rome, 1999.
Concerns New European Painting relates to the post-traumatic traces of warGriselda Pollock and Penny Florence, Looking Back to the Future. G&B Arts Press, 2000. and it involves working oil painting and drawings with new media like photography,Hal Foster, The Return of the Real. MIT Press / October Book, 1996. xeroxJean-Francois Lyotard, "Scriptures: Diffracted Traces", Theory, Culture and Society. (Vol.21 n.1), 2004.Griselda Pollock, "Gleaning in history or coming after/behind the reapers. Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts. London: Routledge, 1996. and digital mediaARS06 - Sense of the Real, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2006.Amy Scholder and Jordan Crandall, Interaction. NY: D.A.P., 2001. to create and develop a postmodern archive "fever".Griselda Pollock, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive. Routledge, 2007.Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever: Photography Between History and the Monument . This painting relates through this aspect to the post-World War II "archive" art with artists like Christian Boltanski and Jochen Gerz,Rosi Huhn, Das Problem der Entsorgung in Kunst und Kulture als Passage zum Positiven Barbarentum / Le Problème du traitement des résidus dans l'art et dans la culture, en tant que passage vers une 'Barbarie Positive, Passages [d']après]/ Passagen Nach Walter Benjamin.Verlag Herman Schmidt, Mainz, 1992. and it is often a part of this tendency. Yet, though this painting has a clear figurative stroke it is strongly connected to Lyrical AbstractionAlison Rowley, Helen Frankenthaler: Painting History, Writing painting, I.B.Tauris Publishers, 2007 to contemporary reconsiderations of the Sublime in art while creating a new inner space in painting and in the series of paintings.Christine Buci-Glucksmann, "Inner Space of Painting", in: Catherine de Zegher (ed.) Inside the Visible, MIT Press, 1996
Bibliography
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Laurence Bosse and Carolyne Christove-Bakargiev, La Ville, le Jardin, la Memoire / City, Garden, Memory. Villa Medici, Rome, 1999. Michael Ann Holley and Keith Moxey, Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies. Clarck Art Institute, Studley Press 2002. Chris Dercon, Face a l'Histoire / In Front of History. Pompidou Centre, Paris, 1996. Griselda Pollock, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive. Routledge, 2007. Patrick Le Nouene and Jochen Gerz, Gerz: L'oeuvres sur papier photographique 1983-86. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, 1986.
See also Neo-expressionism Lyrical Abstraction Postmodern art Late Modernism Modernism Digital painting Intermedia
References
External links History of Painting History of Art: From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Retrieved May 28, 2007