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Painting’s First Avant-Garde Was 500 Years Ago

VISUAL Posted: July 11, 2014 12:32 am

In an essay titled “The Birth of Bad Taste”, Barry Schwabsky argues that “long before Matisse, the Italian artists of the sixteenth century who came to be known as Mannerists were willing to twist their figures out of proportion, and they did so to create not convincing images, but convincing paintings.”

VISUAL Published: 07.01.14

Read the story in The Nation Published: 07.01.14

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