What Is Hypersentimentalism? On the New Tendency in Art
The Art Angle
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Hypersentimentalism: A Smartly Positioned Style of Figurative Painting
The term hypersentimentalism is used to describe a style of figurative painting that champions micro community as content but also as sensibility. Kate Schulte: I was really thinking about hyperlinks, these visual cues that you click on and they kind of bring you to another place. So the hypersentimental painters that I kind of name have adopted this way of working where the painting is like a sentimental portrait but there's a second layer of meaning that is speaking about their scene to their scene.
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