Synopses & Reviews
As a young painter coming into art in the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz (born 1938) was swift to reject the gestural abstraction that had dominated European and American painting since the end of World War Two, embracing instead a bold figurative expressionism. Often confounding optical habits by inverting his motifs, or pushing them close to abstraction, Baselitz forged new tensions and resistances in painting, and even today, he remains driven by fundamental questions on the potentials and limits of his art. Bildweg is published on the occasion of the artist's seventieth birthday, and ranges across his work, from the Schwarz-weiss Negativ (Black and White Negative)--one of the first headstand pictures--to his recent remix of his well-known large-format work The Bridge Ghost's Supper.
Synopsis
This book explores Baselitz's expressive recent works, including the 'Remix' series, for which he has produced new interpretations of some of his most controversial paintings.