Pigment Pur and the Corpo da Côr
Post-Painterly Practice and Transmodernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300525 |
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| Authors | Irene V Small (IRENE V. SMALL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, where she teaches modern and contemporary art and criticism within a global context. She is affiliated with the programs in Latin American Studies and Media and Modernity. Her book, Hélio Oiticica: Folding the Frame, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2015., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 152 |
| Pages | 82-102 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/octo_a_00218 |
| OpenAlex | W2203569474 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This article analyzes a near-contemporaneous incidence of post-painterly practice-the use of raw pigment-utilized by the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein and the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica. The use of raw pigment by both artists was conditioned by a self-conscious relationship to the history of modernist art and the monochrome as a limit and origin of painting. Despite the confluence of such orientations, Klein's pigments purs (pure pigments) and Oiticica's corpo da côr (body of color) resulted in radically divergent orientations toward the industrially produced commodity and hence the readymade. By exploiting inconsistencies characteristic of the commodity in developmentalist Brazil, Oiticica orchestrated a transfer of making from artist to viewer, initiating a newly participatory dimension within modernist color
Art · Art history · Commodity · Dimension (graph theory · Humanities · Monochrome · Painting · Pure mathematics · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · History, Culture, and Society · Mathematics · Youth, Politics, and Society · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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