fundamental painting

English

Noun

fundamental painting (uncountable)

1. (art) An approach to painting that focuses on the physical brushwork, textures, etc.
   • 2000, Raoul de Keyser, Steven Jacobs, Raoul de Keyser paintings 1980-1999, page 19:

     De Keyser's work from this period can be unequivocally linked to the so-called Fundamental Painting that was prominent in the art world at the time.

   • 2005, Jessica Wyman, Pro Forma: Language, Text, Visual Art, volume 1:

     Evidently, formalist and fundamental painting practices dependent upon American reductive theories of art, such as the modernist painting thesis propounded by Clement Greenberg […]