Art

Riccardo Venturi

Black paintings Eclissi sul modernismo

Black paintings

€ 15,00

A philosophical and sensitive reading of this 20th-century "genre"; a phenomenon that knocked the modern tradition of mimesis off course and yet, paradoxically, a unique way to explore the very constituents of painting.

Monochrome paintings are images without representation. Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt, for example, developed an extreme process of negation: no content except the object itself; no drawing, no composition, no internal rapport, no depth, no dramatic relationship between figure and background, no plasticity and no decoration. Explore the degree zero of painting, colour and matter, in itself and for itself; and its great physical and conceptual density based on symbols, spiritualism and utopia.


Format
15x23
Binding
paperback with flaps
Pages
92
Year of publication
2008
ISBN
9788837055226
Language
Italian
Genre
Art
Publisher
Electa