TAB Event - Georg Baselitz - Reality is the Picture

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At Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Media: Painting, Drawing

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“Reality is the picture, it is definitely not IN the picture.”
This sentence as spoken by Georg Baselitz, born as Hans-Georg Kern in the town of Deutschbaselitz in the federal state of Saxony in 1938, can be understood as the program for his works of art. This is the case even though the artist has always remained true to representational art in his pictures, sculptures and prints.
On his way to autonomy of the motif, Baselitz has developed his own unmistakable stamp: since 1969, all motifs have been turned upside down, on their heads, as it were. This turning represents the most significant step in his work. By calling into question the basis of our seeing, which has been the all-powerful idea of a perspectivistic-tectonic picture space since the early Renaissance, Baselitz gains the freedom to give the object a new and novel authenticity. The reversed point of view forces the viewer to step back from his own knowledge of the motif and – instead – recognize and appreciate the richness of relationships yielded by form and color.

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