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Jules Chéret is a pioneer of the modern advertising poster. His unusual designs gave him the nickname 'Tiepolo of the Boulevards'. This publication documents the career of this defining artist in the history of poster art, by means of a wide selection of commercial posters and advertising art, as well as decorations and paintings. Exhibition: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (10.11.2011-5.2.2012).
11) Kippenberger
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Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) was one of the most complex artists of the 80s and 90s. His œuvre could not be reduced to any one medium. To him, sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, catalogues, invitation cards and posters were all equally valid forms of artistic expression and he constantly played off one against another in an output so prolific that it verged on the inflationary. His maxim was that "good artists are never on holiday" and...
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Abstraction is considered as one of the significant formal articulations of modern art, and it is most closely associated with painting. The relentless analysis of the medium, breaking it down to its zero point, by the avant garde of the 1910s was followed by a recurrent burgeoning of nonrepresentational painting, particularly in Abstract Expressionism, Informalism, and Minimal Art. After modern abstraction of the 1960s was informed by skepticism...