fundamental painting

noun

An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.

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Meanings

nounfundamental painting (uncountable)
  1. uncountableartAn approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.

    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.

    2000, Raoul de Keyser, Steven Jacobs, Raoul de Keyser paintings 1980-1999, page 19
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    Evidently, formalist and fundamental painting practices dependent upon American reductive theories of art, such as the modernist painting thesis propounded by Clement Greenberg […]

    2005, Jessica Wyman, Pro Forma: Language, Text, Visual Art, volume 1
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