ABSTRACT
Enrique Garcia Herraiz contributed “Chronicles from New York” to the prestigious art magazine Goya from 1969 onwards, which had previously been written by Barbara Rose. One of the main artists of the New Image, Jonathan Borofsky, has been making art for seven years based on street imagery, reproducing graffiti, obsessively-repeated numbers, and accumulating diverse objects, preferably empty sacks and bulbs. Mary Boone leads the most rebellious and violent trend within the new wave, whereas the other new gallery in SoHo, Holly Solomon, focuses on artists with a certain decorative content, more pictorial. Typically, in New Image Painting this narrative expressionism is often combined with a purely decorative exercise. He received his artistic education in California and now lives in New York, where he achieved success before turning thirty. It is the idea, or rather the rebellious attitude, what prevails before an audience that sadly recognizes in this art a very contemporary attitude.
