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Michael J. Pearce

Michael J. Pearce

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 5

In the 20th century, a huge division was torn across the arts in America and Europe. On one side stood a crowd of intellectuals, many of…

Jul 29, 2019

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 5

Jul 29, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 4

Alongside Marx’s materialism and Nietzsche’s relativism, Kant’s ideas about judgment became a powerful theme for the 20th Century…

Jul 29, 2019

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 4

Jul 29, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 3

If Marx gives us a left-wing political underpinning to avant-garde art, Nietzsche gives us more of its key themes, that deconstruction may…

Jul 29, 2019

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 3

Jul 29, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 2

When I first began to get serious about painting I wanted to make work like the great baroque painter Caravaggio, but I couldn’t find any…

Jul 29, 2019

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 2

Jul 29, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 1

Nature is vicious. The food chain requires death. The strong survive because they feed on others. There is no room for sentiment in this…

Jul 29, 2019

Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 1

Jul 29, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

A New Age of American Art

The Illusionists

Apr 11, 2019

A New Age of American Art

Apr 11, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Why the Left Disowned Art.

A new era for painting and sculpture.

Apr 9, 2019

Why the Left Disowned Art.

Apr 9, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Smashing!

The Carnival of Iconoclasm

Mar 12, 2019

Smashing!

Mar 12, 2019

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An American Revolutionary Guide to 21st-Century Art

American representational artists pursue the sublime

Feb 2, 2019

An American Revolutionary Guide to 21st-Century Art

Feb 2, 2019

Michael J. Pearce

Michael J. Pearce

Michael Pearce is a figurative artist and author of “Art in the Age of Emergence.” In 2012 he founded The Representational Art Conference.

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