Sentences with phrase «painted his subjects upside»
He starting painting his subjects upside down, as in the Forest on its Head (1969, Ludwig Museum).
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Disrupting the painted subject both visually and symbolically, Baselitz repeatedly portrays himself upside down, wearing a cap marked «ZERO» (the name of his paint supplier).
He is perhaps best known for his iconic upside - down paintings, in which the artist inverts the subject matter in order to highlight the artifice of painting.
If Baselitz is known for one thing, it is for his decision in 1969 to flip his paintings upside down, so that his subjects appear inverted.
Donnelly writes: «In Das Negativ, Baselitz paints from photographic negatives, resulting in a necessarily dark palette, with subjects obscured in their reversed portrayals — a step beyond the artist's usual practice of painting his figures upside down.
His well - known upside - down paintings signal his supreme subject: the genre of art itself.
He started producing paintings with the subjects painted upside down, in accordance with the idea that the subject is less important than the paint itself.