T H E T O Y M A K E R Rosa Verloop - Wie ben Ik. The Incredible Art Department Arnulf Rainer Austrian painter, printmaker and photographer. He had almost no academic training as an artist. From 1948 to 1951 he produced Surrealistic drawings representing underwater scenes and mystical forms, rendering these fantastic images in pencil as a densely worked surface. Deeply suspicious of rationality, he investigated the potential of dreams, madness and the subconscious; to these ends he co-founded the Hundsgruppe under the influence of French Surrealism in 1950. He began to turn away from fantastic Surrealism. From 1951 to 1954 he worked on a series entitled Blind Drawings (e.g. 1952; see 1988 exh. cat., p. 27), in which he studied optical disintegration and the destruction of form, replacing pictorial composition and illusion with the immediacy of accidentally encountered textures. From 1956 Rainer became concerned with religious theories and practices, particularly in a group of paintings dominated by cruciform shapes. Bibliography O.
Günter Brus Tal y como señalaba Manuel Asensi en el catálogo de la exposición Günter Brus. Quietud nerviosa en el horizonte, para entender el trabajo de Brus “es necesario tener en cuenta su obsesión por los límites: entre el arte y el mundo, entre las artes (teatro, poesía, pintura, situación, escritura material, etc.), entre los interiores y los exteriores (lo que hay dentro del cuerpo y lo que hay fuera de él), entre lo animado y lo inanimado, entre la muerte y la vida”. Günter Brus (Ardning, Austria, 1938) fue, junto a Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch y Rudolf Schwarzkogler, uno de los máximos representantes del accionismo vienés, un movimiento que a mediados de la década de los sesenta convulsionó la escena cultural austriaca al llevar el arte al terreno de la acción y utilizar el cuerpo humano como principal soporte y material artístico. A finales de los años cincuenta, Brus realizaba una obra pictórica muy próxima al expresionismo abstracto. Actividad relacionada Visita comentada por Günter Brus
Casa das Histórias - Museu Paula Rego John Currin JOHN CURRINTapestry, 2013 Oil on canvas 48 1/8 x 34 inches (117.2 x 86.4 cm) © John Currin Photo by Rob McKeever John Currin Listed Exhibitions (32 Kb)John Currin Bibliography (49 Kb) John Currin's ambitious paintings seduce, repel, surprise, and puzzle. John Currin (b. 1962, Boulder, Colorado) received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and an MFA from Yale University.
the art of SKINNER - "Every Man Is My Enemy Book!!!" New Book!! Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue: Home Morton Bartlett In 1993, Marion Harris, a New York art and antiques dealer, made the discovery of her life: In a booth at the Pier Show, a major antiques fair in New York, she came upon a collection of dolls and doll parts in boxes, along with stacks of old photographs. The material had been removed from a townhouse in Boston’s South End after the death of its elderly owner, a man named Morton Bartlett. Acting on instinct, she bought everything, and when she got it all home she found that what she’d purchased was a group of 15 exquisitely realistic, half-life-size dolls carefully wrapped in old newspapers and stored in custom-made wooden boxes. Three of them represented a boy of about 8 years old, and the rest were figures of girls between the ages of 8 and 16. There were also expertly tailored clothes for the dolls and hundreds of professional-quality photographs of the dolls in evocatively staged and dramatically lighted situations. For viewers new to Bartlett, the show is an excellent introduction.
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