fundamental painting
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- (art) An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.
- 2000, Raoul de Keyser, Steven Jacobs, Raoul de Keyser paintings 1980-1999, page 19:
- De Keyser's work from this period can be unequivocally linked to the so-called Fundamental Painting that was prominent in the art world at the time.
- 2005, Jessica Wyman, Pro Forma: Language, Text, Visual Art, volume 1:
- Evidently, formalist and fundamental painting practices dependent upon American reductive theories of art, such as the modernist painting thesis propounded by Clement Greenberg […]