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David Salle   Master Artists

David Salle is a postmodernist painter born in the United States in Oklahoma in 1952.

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font-family:">David Salle studies at the California Institute of the Arts. line-height:107%;font-family:" arial",sans-serif"="" data-redactor-
line-height:107%;font-family:">John Baldessari is then one of his teachers, and teaches him collage techniques inspired by film editing. This technique allows Salle to train in plastic work on photography, a real starting point for his artistic career. The whole of New York discovered this young painter with a sulphurous style through his first series of sensual paintings and erotic photographs. The painting is crude and the representation realistic. The absence of modesty adds a touch of candor to his creations, contrasting deliciously with the eroticism of his work.

" arial",sans-serif"="">David Salle explores different fields, ranging from installation and performance to several collage techniques. The artist appropriates several periods of the history of art. So he is fond of video, cinematographic and photographic media that he revisits in his own way, incorporating references to classicism, romanticism, impressionism, modern art, or even expressionism. Already, he claims a stylistic freedom that the modernists sorely lack. Their too many constraints push him towards a new genre: post-modernism. Theorized by Charles Jencks, the movement ironically plays with the narrow codes of modern art. Postmoderns scoff at artistic conventions, especially those imposed in architectural and urban representation. At the same time, David Salle embarked on the path of the Trans-avant-garde, whose movement launched in 1970 advocated a return to traditional painting, in opposition to the advent of conceptualism and minimalism. David Salle is involved in all battles, and claims the right to inconsistency and the mixing of styles.

" arial",sans-serif"="">David Salle's work is based on a work of juxtaposition. Juxtaposition of materials, elements, supports, but also eras, styles, movements, arts ... Thus the artist evokes History, popular culture, the History of art, comics or the capitalist world. All the arts are represented, all styles, all eras, all backgrounds. Salle offers the viewer a homogenization of time and space, social classes and materials. His work is like a theatrical performance.

" arial",sans-serif"="">The artist won the American Rome Prize in Visual Arts in 2000. He is a member of the American Academy in Rome.