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A Romantic Picture
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With the title A ROMANTIC PICTURE Kirkeby offered a programmatic and ironic contrast to the watered-down romanticising emotionalism that he, as part of the new avant-garde, rejected. Pop Art took its point of departure in consumer society as one way of breaking down what it regarded as a petty bourgeois concept of art. The motifs hail from popular culture - magazines, comic books, and porn – transferred by means of templates. All contents are kept wryly at arm’s length, drawing on general ideals and clichés about desire: Heroes and heroines striking energetic poses, women expressive of allure and seduction. Fragments of narratives are whirled around between stylised, raster-like surfaces of polka dots and an expressive painterly morass. The painting is executed in a self-aware manner, replacing deep emotion with surface seduction.
Title: A Romantic Picture
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With the title A ROMANTIC PICTURE Kirkeby offered a programmatic and ironic contrast to the watered-down romanticising emotionalism that he, as part of the new avant-garde, rejected.
Pop Art took its point of departure in consumer society as one way of breaking down what it regarded as a petty bourgeois concept of art.
The motifs hail from popular culture - magazines, comic books, and porn – transferred by means of templates.
All contents are kept wryly at arm’s length, drawing on general ideals and clichés about desire: Heroes and heroines striking energetic poses, women expressive of allure and seduction.
Fragments of narratives are whirled around between stylised, raster-like surfaces of polka dots and an expressive painterly morass.
The painting is executed in a self-aware manner, replacing deep emotion with surface seduction.
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