ART SURVEYS

A New Spirit in Painting
6 Painters of the 1980's
58 minutes, color

Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz. Narration by Donald Kuspit.

Critic Donald Kuspit sees the possibilities of modern art revitalized in the powerful expressive painting of this international group of artists. From an immense reservoir of choices, they have recovered myth, history, symbols and eroticism to use as subject matter, and have recharged the painterly gestures of previous generations with new intensity.