David Salle
David Salle was born 1952 BirthNorman Oklahama, USA.
Lives and works in HomeNew York.
Categories: Postmodernism Painting Neo-Expressionism
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American painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He studied under John Baldessari and others at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA (1973–5). While working in the art department of a publisher of romance and pornographic magazines he gathered together photographs from the company’s archives, later using them as source material for his paintings…
Nudes in paintings are not the same as nudes in the world. It’s their relationship that’s interesting…the specificity of the poses in my paintings is much different really than that of the poses one sees in pornography." David Salle is not inviting the audience to voyerism. According to him, female nudes in paintings constitute abstract choreography rather than pornography. Salle bends the naked body to extreme positions while he observes its forms in different spaces and from strange perspectives. The female body becomes an object and forces the viewer to choose from a variety of ways of looking…
David Salle has taken the device of pastiche, which is central to modern art, and made it both the form and content of his work…
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To be on the road of perversion, but not quite there…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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