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Georg Baselitz
Edited By Norman Rosenthal
December 2008
Mondadori Electa, Milan, Italy
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
9788837060435
166 Pages, Illustrated, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4"
$75.00 Hardcover
OUT OF PRINT
Baselitz began his artistic development in 1961-1962 with
the publication of the manifesto "Pandämonium" and a first series of
paintings which, in the guise of psychological illness or obscenity, more
or less violently confronted conformist bourgeois art. In 1966, the artist
moved towards a mode of painting detached from contents, exempt from anecdotal
cues and realistic-descriptive motifs. His first steps on this path were
the Streifenbilder from the late sixties, particularly well represented
in the exhibition. But the decisive transition was the reversal of the subject
painted, practised from 1969 on. Initially painted in definite forms and
garish colours, the subjects became transformed into unusual, abnormal motifs,
rendered in monotonous colours, like the series of grotesque figures eating
oranges (Orangenesser, 1981). Over the years Baselitz became indifferent
first to the motif and then to technique, with the result that he no longer
felt the need to invert the image and even took to wood carving.
