Stylistic Diversity – Young Painting in London
Lorenz Ecker, KUNSTFORUM International
August 2023
The well-known saying ‘Painting is Dead’ has been heard again and again for decades. New media, from photography to augmented reality, are often said to be attempting to dethrone paintings from the art world. As early as 1981, the exhibition A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts tried to show that London, as a museum and gallery landscape, is very committed to and enthusiastic about painting and its further development. Nevertheless, since then, and to this day, the same question has been asked again and again, whether painting might not have gone out of fashion.