A Darwinian Reading of Bill Kohn's Painting

Bill Kohn's painting, Udaipur Tinsmiths, underlies the 45,000-year history of representational art, beginning with the evolutionarily maladaptive cave paintings and concluding with the starkly abstract and two-dimensional modernistic paintings that exemplify the utopian metanarrative of Clement Greenberg that postmodernism soundly repudiated. That particular repudiation may have been the only misjudgment by posmodernism because the modernistic art thrived into the 21st century....
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Bill Kohn's painting, Udaipur Tinsmiths, underlies the 45,000-year history of representational art, beginning with the evolutionarily maladaptive cave paintings and concluding with the starkly abstract and two-dimensional modernistic paintings that exemplify the utopian metanarrative of Clement Greenberg that postmodernism soundly repudiated. That particular repudiation may have been the only misjudgment by posmodernism because the modernistic art thrived into the 21st century. Unfortunately if crowded out from museum walls newer figurative, three-dimensional paintings more rich in content and mystery.