Analytical painting

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The Analytical painting (also planned painting ) is a contemporary art movement of the 1970s years.

With Concept Art as a forerunner, it is an art movement that reflects and analyzes the basics and possibilities of painting with painterly means. The name comes from Klaus Honnef . Closely related terms are “fundamental painting”, “planned painting” or “essential painting”. What is essential is the “reduction” of the painting to a painting that only shows itself and has no relationship to the world outside the painting, however distant. The years between 1972 and 1977 were the decisive years in public perception.

Artists (e.g. Daniel Buren , Niele Toroni , Raimund Girke or Robert Ryman ) tried to improve the quality of the painting job and the image carrier (canvas, cardboard, metal, plastic) using white as the base color, with simple stripes or monochrome application. to let it work for you. Winfred Gaul founded one of the most important positions in analytical painting in Germany .

Major artists

literature

  • Planned painting (exhibition catalog). Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster 1974.
  • Klaus Honnef: The planned and analytical, fundamental and elementary painting before it became radical: the seventies . In: Kunstforum International Volume 88, 1987, p. 127ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Matthias Bleyl, Essentielle Painting in Germany: Paths to Art after 1945 , Nuremberg 1988. ISBN 978-3-922531-56-2 .
  2. ↑ Article Analytical Painting . In: DuMont's glossary of terms for contemporary art , hrgg. by Hubertus Butin, DuMont, Cologne 2002, p. 11f.
  3. ↑ Rolf Lauter , Winfred Gaul or the beginning of analytical painting; Works from the years 1953-1961 ; Interview with Winfred Gaul in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth on July 19, 1986 / Intervista con Winfred Gaul in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth July 19 , 1986 , Galleria Peccolo, Livorno 1987. OCLC 311895101.