The Radical Reinvention of Art in the 1970s
Paris gallery Helene Bailly Marcilhac is presenting a summer group exhibition titled “The Seventies,” surveying how artists in the 1970s expanded painting and other media through experimentation and looser formal rules. The show highlights Jean-Paul Riopelle’s palette-knife “mosaic” works, positioned as challenging boundaries between painting and sculpture, alongside gestural abstractions by Hans Hartung and modernist abstraction by Chu Teh-Chun bridging Eastern and Western traditions. It also features works exploring radical color experimentation by artists including Joan Miró, Sam Francis, and Sonia Delaunay, and includes late works by Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall to show continuity across generations. Artnet frames the exhibition as tracing how 1970s innovations built on earlier movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Lyrical Abstraction, and Art Informel while influencing later abstraction.
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