Realities
Realities is the name of a group of Austrian painters who caused a sensation in the 1960s and 1970s .
The six members met for the first time in the politically turbulent May 1968 for an exhibition in the Vienna Secession . They were regarded as representatives of a realism tinged with satirical to socially critical, in contrast to the non-political Informel , which was then internationally dominant , but had no binding common artistic concept. Nevertheless, they appeared together again and again until 1975 , which gave rise to Otto Breicha's thesis that it was a group that actually wasn't one.
The Viennese art critic Alfred Schmeller referred to them as crocodiles in the carp pond , whereby he regarded the representatives of abstract art as carp .
The name Realities goes back to a title by Kurt Kocherscheidt .
Members
literature
- Theresia Then: There is only one thing that art must not be: boring - painting and life by Robert Zeppel-Sperl. GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3640187962