//
Be In The Know //
Archive
/ About
/ Ask me anything
/ Theme

15967 ♥

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

4378 ♥

16594 ♥

2975 ♥

20798 ♥

97 ♥

cavetocanvas:

Georg Baselitz, Man of Faith, 1983
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Since 1969, the brutal, expressionist paintings of Georg Baselitz have depicted figures upside down. This device was previously the hallmark of another artist, Marc Chagall, whose figures, floating free through time and space, were used to a very different purpose-as elements of a complex narrative. In Baselitz’s work, the inverted figure focuses our immediate attention not on the narrative subject but on the process of painting itself-on the textural qualities of the oil medium, the vivid contrasts of color, and the violent, agitated brushwork. The shock of seeing reality presented “on its ear” is perhaps too much for the viewer to overlook completely, but we may concede that Baselitz has succeeded in creating a tense balance between representation and abstraction.In this work, Baselitz has produced a simple, disturbing image on a grand scale (the canvas is more than eight feet tall), and he fills almost the entire composition with the forms of the falling man. Dressed in what appear to be clerical robes, the figure is bent over in prayer, perhaps a reference to the Apostle Peter, who was crucified upside down. Baselitz’s color is dark and powerful-primarily deep blue-blacks, with patches of bright white, yellow, and blue. The coarse style of painting, derived from early twentieth-century German Expressionism, is equally stark and direct.

97 ♥

beautyandthebeastieboys:

Blue…

1190 ♥

aleyma:

Ring with unicorn, heart, lady, and clasped hands. Made in Germany or Italy, c.1550-1600 (source).

15386 ♥

8591 ♥

1
2
3
4
5
Older →