Profoundly shaped by the events, forces, and overflow of today\'s disjointed, social-media-heavy life, these artists\' paintings are disrupted stylistically, thematically, or sometimes both. - Foreword by artist Nicholas Wilton, founder of Art2Life - Features a special essay on artist Jenny Saville, who has inspired many contemporary Representational artists to disrupt their art - More than half of the artists are from outside the US; includes women and BIPOC artists - Artists\' comments presented in an engaging question-and-answer style - Artists include Casey Baugh, Jenny Saville, Joseph Lee, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Justin Mortimer, and dozens More - Art writer and curator John Seed is the foremost authority on disrupted realism and is the author of Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World.
They allow us to appreciate how art relates to the super-fast, simultaneous, almost dizzyingly paced scrolling of our lives.
Profoundly shaped by the events, forces, and overflow of today\'s disjointed, social-media-heavy life, these artists\' paintings are disrupted stylistically, thematically, or sometimes both