Lead by Jonathan Brown, this BSL tour at Tate Modern takes you around the Energy and Process display Beyond Painting and explores ideas of painting beyond the conventional technique of applying paint by brush to canvas.
At the beginning of the twentieth century a growing number of artists no longer saw representation as the foremost function of painting. Instead they began to investigate the various constituent elements that make up a painting, such as the brushstroke or painterly mark, support structure, colour, form, surface and pictorial space. This display shows how these works and artists such as Lucio Fontana, Henri Laurens and Július Koller opened up a great many new possibilities for painting as an artistic practice which extended far beyond the traditional definition of the medium.