Beautiful/Decay: Wet Paint

For over 32,000 thousand years the art of painting has captured the minds and imaginations of millions. As the most popular form of art making, painting has gone through thousands of changes from documenting holy scenes to being used as propaganda to control entire nations. No matter the era, the power of painting can not be disputed. Painting has taken on quite a different role in modern society. Gone are the days of artists depending on church and state to guide their practice, today artists are free to explore any and every theme, style, and painting manner that they choose pushing the envelope of what can be done with the ancient artistic practice. Beautiful/Decay: Wet paint features some of the most exciting artists working in the painting world today. No technique, style, or practice is left uncovered. Ranging from the abstract artist whose practice revolves around formal concerns to the narrative painter that creates unexplored new worlds, to experimental paintings that merely have traces of traditional painting in them. This book explores the exciting works of the contemporary painting world, each technique exploding the of traditions and norms of the past.