Kitsch 20th century
Martin Eder is a German artist.
From 1986 until 1992, he studied at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, and from 1993 until 1995 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, attending the University of Kassel in 1995 and 1996. From 1996 until 1999 he studied under Eberhard Bosslet at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was a master student under Professor Bosslet from 1991 until 2001. Eder lives and works in Berlin. He plays in his own experimental rock band under the name Richard Ruin et Les Demoniaques.
Audrey L. Flack is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting.[6] The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit.[6] These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo-realist paintings. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966.
Jeffrey Lynn Koons is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums, including at least two record auction prices for a work by a living artist: US$58.4 million for Balloon Dog (Orange) in 2013 and US$91.1 million for Rabbit in 2019.
Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch, crass, and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings and critiques in his works.
Jörg Losek is a contemporary German painter and graphic artist. Currently lives and works in Leipzig. In 2002 and 2003 he exhibited in LIGA gallery, the now famous alternative gallery in Berlin, which was the first exhibition space for many artists from Leipzig. Since then he has exhibited in Cologne (Galerie Binz und Kraemer), London (Rhodes+Mann Gallery), Los Angeles (Sandroni Rey Gallery), Paris (Galerie Daniel Templon) and various group exhibitions.
Pierre et Gilles is the creative union of Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, French photographers and spouses.
Pierre Commoy was born in 1950 in La Roche-sur-Yon and Gilles Blanchard in 1953 in Le Havre.
Their joint work is at the crossroads of pop-art and kitsch, it has had a significant influence on fashion photography, advertising and has spawned many imitators.
Wang Qingsong is a Chinese photographer. He studied at the Sichuan Academy of Art. He began his career as an oil painter, then moved on to photography. Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China. His photographs, appearing at first humorous and ironic, have a much deeper message.
