David Salle's new paintings at the galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

An upcoming show at the galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris showcases some of David Salle's newest paintings. When discussing krimp's and graw's writing on appropriation, David Salle is one of the first painters to come to mind. He was part of the "Pictures generation" which was a group of artists in the 70s/80s that appropriated images of pop culture from the influx of media at the time. Not only does his work take play in the themes of our current readings but also the death of the author was very important in backing the pictures generation which was critical to the development of postmodernism. Some of David Salles newer works still apply to his use of collage of appropriated images, while others take a more intuitive less image based approach.