From the outset, the strength of Baselitz hits you in the face.
Like
Tête-G
, this self-portrait in the form of an extraterrestrial being, whose title implicitly refers to the so-called
“degenerate art”
exhibition
in 1937. The artist is an alien, his brain guides his hand, shapes his world, which only looks like him.
The softness of the pink which forms the background of the large painting underlines the bluish pallor of the deformed and childish face, innocent, in short, like the newborn baby.
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The portrait, a total art according to Hyacinthe Rigaud
The path to Georg Baselitz's painting, colossal stature and forget-me-not eyes, is open to you.
It is properly inhabited, like the magician of the harsh lands, the surveyor of deserted forests where the trees, the symbolic oaks of the nation that Hitler offered as a gift at the Berlin Olympics of 1936, witness the fall of the “Heroes”.
The Great Fouted Night
, his
punchy
painting that caused a scandal in West Berlin in 1963, tells this defeated story.
But also imposes the temperament of an artist that nothing seems to constrain.
Period
Without
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