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Indepth Arts News: "Encounters: NEW art from OLD" 2000-06-14 until 2000-09-17 National Gallery London, , UK United Kingdom
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and
the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times
have wrestled with tradition, extracting lessons of relevance to
their own art. 'Encounters: New Art from Old' is an exhibition of
new work by 24 major living artists (painters, sculptors,
photographers, video and installation artists) made in response
to paintings in the National Gallery, and shows how some of the
greatest artistic personalities of the late 20th century continue to
engage with the work of their predecessors. For some, like
Kossoff and Freud, this engagement is based on close study of
the way an artist paints and is a continual process of technical
discovery. For others, like Bourgeois, Clemente and Kiefer, the
art of the past is a source of ideas to be interpreted and
refashioned in works of a very different kind. The painters they
have looked at are as various as their responses, ranging from
Duccio to Seurat.
The new works made for 'Encounters' demonstrate that the art of
the past continues to speak to the present. They will allow
everyone who visits the exhibition to share that artistic exchange
between old and new.
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