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"New ideas might be conceived and developed more rapidly in disciplines that are more abstract. The inductive methods of experimental innovators in painting makes their enterprise resemble the more empirical disciplines considered by psychologists, while the deductive approach of the conceptual innovators makes theirs resemble the more abstract disciplines." David W. Galenson, "The Life Cycles of Modern Artists", NBER Working Paper Series, 2003. Artists and architects have been at times captivated by visionary ideological viewpoints, which they used as inspiration and to make suggestions for applications with their artworks and designs. My use of the diagram and the image aims to convey the simple message that art strives for evolution; meaning to strengthen the mind, to research capabilities, to communicate a disinterested, though not necessarily apolitical, view of social changes, to overcome banality and offer an alternative way of looking at the world. For many artists, this motivation has traditionally often gone hand in hand with political goals and motivations. The decline of the commercial art market in the 1980s gave rise to artists working mainly, but not solely, with ephemeral installations, including the ubiquitous video art, performance, and the broader range of conceptual art. Painting remained as an established fine art practice, with a renewed interest to conceptualism. YBA (Young British Artists) was a seminal artistic group in Britain of the 1990s, who challenged conventional modes of that period of making and exhibiting art. They had their first group exhibition in 1988. The portrait is of the artist, myself, at a young age, dated 1993, when I was a student at the NTUA. Betty Nigianni is my name known as (aka), which I also used as my artistic pseudonym.

type	research exposition
keywords	value, globalization, modern art, art, Economics, politics, ideology, Conceptual art, Video art, Painting, performance, pseudo
date	05/02/2022
last modified	27/08/2025
status	in progress
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copyright	Z.P.Nigianni
license	All rights reserved
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1517165/1517166
external link	https://www.nber.org/papers/w14005

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