The Limit – Generator of Expression Forms in Painting

The fast pace at which the forms of expression developed in the art of the 20th century mirrors the evolution of society and hence the ideologies underlying it. The problematization of the concept of “limit”, a leitmotif serving as a landmark around and beyond which new postulations or contestations of foreshadowing forms/concepts ventured, may be a novel point of view on the evolution through time of morphology and stylistics in art and a good means for performing a radiography of the “symptoms”/“figurations” of the present. What is our current position on the concept of “limit” in art?