Artville artist of the day: Georg Baselitz
Title: Yellow Song
Year: 2013
Size: 306.5 x 146.5 x 109 cm. (120.7 x 57.7 x 42.9 in.)
Medium: Sculptures, Bronze, 890 kg
Georg Baselitz is one of Germany’s most prolific and well-known living artists. Born in Saxony in 1938 – painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Selecting subject matter (figures, animals, birds, landscapes and still-lifes) and placing them in dramatic settings, Baselitz’ works also place the viewer in a world of heightened self-consciousness to confront the being with the brutalities of history and the human tragedies.
He also partakes of a particular rebel sensibility and – like Camus Homme révolté - examines several countercultural figures and movements to cast anti-heroes as a strategy to liberate the subject matter, from the grotesque one, to the broken soldiers of the Fracture paintings and the inverted figures of the disturbing upside-down paintings.
Courtesy: www.artnet.com
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