Definitions

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  • proper noun An international art movement formed in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, opposing conceptual art in favour of figurative painting.

Etymologies

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stuck +‎ -ism, the name "Stuckism" was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson after an angry remark from Childish's partner: "Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck!".

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Examples

  • I suppose this emphasis and on pro-affect art isn't necessarily an extension of Stuckism, which focused primarily on the resurgence of figurative painting, but you are more generally proposing the question what makes 'good art' and with that, offering that good art is art that affects the viewer in some way, or that connection with the work and the beholder is explosive, and only has longevity with that explosive connection?

    Marina Cashdan: Liverpool Biennial Director Lewis Biggs on Why Conceptualism Is Out and Materiality Is In 2010

  • I suppose this emphasis and on pro-affect art isn't necessarily an extension of Stuckism, which focused primarily on the resurgence of figurative painting, but you are more generally proposing the question what makes 'good art' and with that, offering that good art is art that affects the viewer in some way, or that connection with the work and the beholder is explosive, and only has longevity with that explosive connection?

    Marina Cashdan: Liverpool Biennial Director Lewis Biggs on Why Conceptualism Is Out and Materiality Is In 2010

  • Here's plenty more information about the issue with links to ther source over at the Stuckism website or the Times or the Guardian.

    September 2006 2006

  • Stuckism, for better or worse, has entered our language.

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2011

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