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Modern Art Monday Presents: Thomas Schütte, Melonely

thomas schutte me lonely installation 1 photo by gail worley
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For many artists working in the 1960s and ’70s, ideas often superseded the physical making of art. These ideas were typically ideological, structural, and philosophical in nature and conveyed in the form of words, grids, and graphs. By the 1980s, Thomas Schütte and other artists ushered in a return to representation, which some critics described as a response to a “hunger for images.“ Around this time, cherries, watermelon, and other kinds of comestibles became motifs in his work.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Thomas Schütte, Vater Staat

vater staat by thomas schütte photo by gail worley
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Since antiquity, nation states have used monumental figurative sculpture to convey authority, stability, glory, and heroism, thereby conferring status to ruling parties – whether dictators, monarchs, or democratically elected leaders.
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