Painting Criticism or Painting as Criticism
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(Re)seeing Painting
This features dedicated to painting is part of an attempt to encourage critical analyses of painting practices. While presenting a selection of articles that attest to the diversity of aesthetic and conceptual approaches to this art form, (Re)seeing Painting puts forward some considerations of the different strategies deployed in art practices or dissemination networks. Though pictorial research may remain central to painters, some of them use their works as formidable tools of empowerment or protest, as a means to critically examine society.
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The Reactualization of Painting in Digital Times
Too Hard: Gay Figurative Painting’s Gimmicks
The Afterlife’s Painting
Narrative Bodies and Intimacy in Contemporary Figurative Painting
Damien Cadio, Des horizons
Painting in a Transitory Realm: Vincent Larouche and the Effects of Digital Culture
Listening to Pictorial Material
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New New Age
Over the last few years, the occult has made a stunning comeback in art, manifested through a re-appropriation of esoterism, a holistic and beneficial approach, and a desire for social and ecological justice. The works in the portfolio New New Age stand out for their powerful intention to re-enchant the world, recognize the agency of matter, and campaign against the destruction of Earth and for all living things, by exploring what is luminous and performative in this philosophy and its rituals.
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