Georg Baselitz, Komplementär bräunlich 2012, oil on canvas, 114.17 x 81.89 inches (courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac)
R. Donnelly blogs about the exhibition Georg Baselitz: Das Negativ at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, on view through August 31, 2012.
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. Though essentially painted from life, Baselitz subverts any realistic elements with his intense gentural abstraction, and tenebrous palette."
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Art Observed