Fresco Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Contemporary=== There have been comparatively few frescoes created since the 1960s but there are some significant exceptions. The American artist, Brice Marden's monochrome works first shown in 1966 at Bykert Gallery, New York were inspired by frescos and "watching masons plastering stucco walls."<ref>[https://brooklynrail.org/2006/10/art/brice-marden Brooklyn Rail] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194006/https://brooklynrail.org/2006/10/art/brice-marden |date=5 October 2021 }} "Brice Marden with Jeffrey Weiss", October 2006.</ref> While Marden employed the imagistic effects of fresco, [[David Novros]] was developing a 50-year practice around the technique. David Novros is an American painter and a muralist of geometric abstraction. In 1968 Donald Judd commissioned Novros to create a work at 101 Spring Street, New York, NY soon after he had purchased the building.<ref>[https://juddfoundation.org/index-of-works/no-title-101-spring-street-1970/ Judd Foundation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194005/https://juddfoundation.org/index-of-works/no-title-101-spring-street-1970/ |date=5 October 2021 }} "Index of works- David Novros", 2013.</ref> Novros used medieval techniques to create the mural by "first preparing a full-scale cartoon, which he transferred to the wet plaster using the traditional pouncing technique," the act of passing powdered pigment onto the plaster through tiny perforations in a cartoon.<ref>Matthew L. Levy, "David Novroโs Painted Places", in David Novros, exh. Cat. (Bielefeld: Kerber, 2014),50.</ref> The surface unity of the fresco was important to Novros in that the pigment he used bonded with the drying plaster, becoming part of the wall rather than a surface coating. This site-specific work was Novros's first true fresco, which was restored by the artist in 2013. The American painter, [[James Hyde (artist)|James Hyde]] first presented frescoes in New York at the Esther Rand Gallery, Thompkins Square Park in 1985. At that time Hyde was using true fresco technique on small panels made of cast concrete arranged on the wall. Throughout the next decade Hyde experimented with multiple rigid supports for the fresco plaster including composite board and plate glass. In 1991 at John Good Gallery in New York City, Hyde debuted true fresco applied on an enormous block of Styrofoam. Holland Cotter of the New York Times described the work as "objectifying some of the individual elements that have made modern paintings paintings."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/arts/art-in-review-884293.html? Holland Cotter,New York Times] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194004/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/12/arts/art-in-review-884293.html |date=5 October 2021 }} "Art in Review", March 1993.</ref> While Hyde's work "ranges from paintings on photographic prints to large-scale installations, photography, and abstract furniture design" his frescoes on Styrofoam have been a significant form of his work since the 1980s.<ref>[https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/james-hyde/ Guggenheim, John Simon Memorial Foundation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194006/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/james-hyde/ |date=5 October 2021 }} ''Awarded Fellows'', 2008.</ref> The frescoes have been shown throughout Europe and the United States. In ArtForum David Pagel wrote, "like ruins from some future archaeological dig, Hyde's nonrepresentational frescoes on large chunks of Styrofoam give suggestive shape to the fleeting landscape of the present."<ref>[https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199310/james-hyde-54400 David Pagel, "James Hyde, Angles Gallery"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194003/https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199310/james-hyde-54400 |date=5 October 2021 }} ''Art Forum'', December 1993.</ref> Over its long history, practitioners of frescoes always took a careful methodological approach. Hyde's frescoes are done improvisationally. The contemporary disposability of the Styrofoam structure contrast the permanence of the classical fresco technique. In 1993, Hyde mounted four automobile sized frescoes on Styrofoam suspended from a brick wall. Progressive Insurance commissioned this site-specific work for the monumental 80- foot atrium in their headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref>[https://www.progressive.com/about/art/installations/ Progressive Insurance, "Installations- James Hyde"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005194005/https://www.progressive.com/about/art/installations/ |date=5 October 2021 }} ''Progressive Insurance'', 1993.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page