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Contemporary painting is indeed heavily concept-driven, often prioritizing ideas, context, and discourse over visual pleasure, craft, or emotional immediacy. This shift makes many works feel more like theory illustrations than paintings in the traditional sense.While conceptual strength can produce powerful, intellectually stimulating art, the dominance of concept has led to widespread criticism: paintings sometimes appear cold, overly academic, market-friendly, or deliberately difficult to access.Still, not all contemporary painting is trapped in this trap—there remains a strong undercurrent of painterly, sensual, and intuitive work that quietly resists the conceptual tide.The tension between "idea" and "painting" is perhaps the central drama of painting today.https://www.artreview.com
https://hyperallergic.com
https://www.frieze.com
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