Neo Rauch: Arbeiten Auf Papier Works On Paper 2003-2004

Цена 63.73 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9783775715010

Брэнд Hatje Cantz

Автор

Страниц 60

Год выпуска 2005

Art critic Rudij Bergmann has stated, "For Neo Rauch, painting is reflection on what is no longer present. His is a decidedly romantic attitude of refusal that gives deeper meaning to figures frozen strangely in motion--as an allegory of universal alienation from the world and rejection of technology and as a melancholy homage to the unfulfilled promise of freedom and human happiness. There is a constant stream of memory in these works, not only of world history but also of childhood, Pop Art, and comics." Rauch possesses an artistic style and sensibility that place his paintings among the most original of our time. Rauch"s palettes and compositions are reminiscent of postwar illustrations; so are his figures. They belong in the past, constantly at work in a world filled with industrial symbolism. These symbols, themselves easily identified, are difficult to interpret in the context of the works, in part due to Rauch"s painterly style, ominous colors and skewed perspectives. The...