Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...post-modernist theory states that thematerialistic, rationalistic, scientific idealogyof Western culture has reached its limit and isnow causing a rapid cultural collapse...
Post-modernism regards partiality in science aspart of an inescapable universal bias. Accordingto post-modernist theory, no truths can beuniversally held, since all concepts of trutharise from local influences...
...ambition can reach that age without producing his or her share of failed pictures. Kitaj has, but he remains an artist of real, sometimes of remarkable interest: a restless omnivore whose way of painting, part personal confession, part syncopated history and part allusive homage to the old and Modernist masters, is quite unlike anybody else's today...
Botta, 51, deserves all praise for coming up with a design that isn't disfigured by post-Modernist hokiness, as is the 1991 Seattle Art Museum, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. No smirking little "references" to grand architecture done in pasteboard; no one-shot ironies or graphic-design quips. Botta's brick masses occupy their site with authority and dignity, and their striations save the windowless walls from dullness. It might have looked like an art bunker, but Botta avoided this by splitting the mass symmetrically with a protruding skylight: a big cylinder sliced...
...color than Northern Europe could offer. Van Gogh went south to Arles; Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and above all Henri Matisse would reach North Africa. "I have found landscapes in Morocco," Matisse claimed, "exactly as they are described in Delacroix's paintings." Morocco satisfied something in the early modernist quest for explicit, fresh, formal experience. And it was Delacroix who pointed the artists there...