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Article: Walter Andersons at TBA.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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Through the postmodern practice of appropriation, Walter Andersons quotes familiar images from modern art history in his wonderfully articulated trompel'oeil paintings that question notions of representation and originality. He addressed the same themes in his earlier, miniature paintings, which rely more on laconic painted texts, notes and quotes lifted from various art-historical tomes and personal revelations by the artist. In this suite of 14 new paintings, Andersons works at a larger scale, using pirated images of paintings by Henri Matisse and key figures in the history of abstraction (Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Yves Klein and Ad ...