Georg Baselitz: Visit From Hokusai By John-paul Stonard
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Georg Baselitz: Visit From Hokusai by John-Paul Stonard Publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Gagosian Gallery in New York in 2015. Georg Baselitz (born 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting. Drawing from myriad influences, including art of Soviet era illustration art, the Mannerist period and African sculptures, he developed his own, distinct artistic language. Drawing has always been central to Baselitz's art. Parallel to his cerebral yet impassioned paintings and roughly hewn sculptures, the practice of drawing is a test site for assimilation and disorientation in his oeuvre. In a new series of two-part ink drawings, Baselitz is "visited" by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), whose exquisitely controlled colour woodblock prints epitomized the refined ukiyo-e genre in Japanese art and persist in the popular imagination today. The message of Hokusai's letter is that perfection comes with age and hindsight. Paired with his confidently drawn self-portrait as a mischievous old man, this poignant gesture from the elderly artist evidently provides inspiration across time and cultures for Baselitz's own pursuit of newness and transformation while continuing to reflect on his own life and mortality. In very good condition throughout.
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