Exposition

Evolution (last edited: 2025)

Betty Nigianni
Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni
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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. 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.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsvalue, globalization, modern art, art, Economics, politics, ideology, Conceptual art, Video art, Painting, performance, pseudo
date05/02/2022
last modified04/03/2025
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightZ.P.Nigianni
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languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1517165/1517166
external linkhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w14005


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