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German Postwar Artists
The Sunday NY Times has a big article on Sigmar Polke, who is being featured at the upcoming Venice Biennale art show. His new work is intriguing and uses exotic materials.
However, I've always thought that Polke comes out second best when compared (as he often is) to Gerhard Richter, who is, to my mind, the greatest living painter.
Anselm Keifer and Joseph Beuys are the quintessential artists who reflect the aftereffects of the war on modern Germany. Keifer's work is so elegiac and decayed and somber and sad, while Bueys (to me) is about the frailty and ridiculousness of the human body.
One thing I really miss about living in the DC area is getting to see works like this Kiefer (here's another) and these Richters (#1, #2) for FREE.
Posted by Kevin Grier on May 27, 2007 at 02:24 PM in The Arts | Permalink
Comments
Alex laid out the rules a few days ago - Tyler posts on obscure art, TYLER. You're messing things up. My head hurts.
Posted by: adrian at May 27, 2007 3:26:00 PM
Adrian, don't you see it? The meaning of this work is obvious.
Posted by: John Goes at May 27, 2007 3:47:37 PM
HOW DID YOU GET MY THREE YEAR OLD'S FINGER PAINTING?!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: rick at May 27, 2007 4:18:47 PM
Wow, tough crowd eh? Here is an excerpt from the article:
Altogether, it has taken him two years to apply and dry the poured lacquer surfaces of the seven abstract paintings he has created for the Biennale. Jointly titled “The Axis of Time,” they are to form the heart of the biennale’s signature exhibition in the Italian pavilion, called “Think With the Senses — Feel With the Mind. Art in the Present Tense.”
The show was organized by Robert Storr, the artistic director of the biennale and a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Given that he views the exhibition as “a meeting place of conceptual and perceptual art,” Mr. Storr said, it was a natural choice.
“Polke for a long time has been the most interesting, least predictable of the painters around,” he said by phone from Venice. “He’s almost impossible to get a bite of. People don’t know what to say right off the bat when they see his work. It has a deep kind of shrewdness.”
Posted by: kevin grier at May 27, 2007 4:49:40 PM
Mr. Grier,
Forgive me if you've already addressed this in your previous posts; but what is your greatest contribution to economics? We are keen to know what would invoke modesty in Prof. AT. Please don't be embarrassed.
Posted by: Chairman Mao at May 27, 2007 7:04:26 PM
Dear Dr Cowen, if you like both Kiefer's & Richter's paintings, the odds are extremely high that you will also like what a girl artist from Singapore, Hong Sek Chern (http://www.witas.org/artists/hongsekc/) does, which is somehow in-between Kiefer & Richter, though very Chinese. She was initially trained in maths, hence part of the rigor, and uses an ink technique quite her own on large format canvasses. The overall effect is rather chilling.
Posted by: Henri Tournyol du Clos at May 27, 2007 7:45:13 PM
Oops, sorry, I meant Dr Grier, not Cowen. My apologies.
Posted by: Henri Tournyol du Clos at May 27, 2007 7:53:07 PM
Dear Chairman Mao:
I think Alex was referring to the fact that I taught him Macro and Econometrics. I think he thinks HE is my greatest contribution to economics!
Posted by: kevin grier at May 27, 2007 8:10:31 PM
i saw a major Keifer ( perhaps it was a first time in US ? ) at MOMA in 1989 ( ? poor memory ) . it simply blew me away .
there was also a major Wahrol with in few months and it was am amazing and amusing comparision .
Posted by: badri at May 30, 2007 5:17:57 PM
hey ..this thing really took me away......nice work
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This painting is totally exclusive.Can you make me more clear what it actually
aims to tell us!!
Posted by: Outsourced Product Development Center at Jun 4, 2007 8:14:14 AM
Magnificant work!!A great piece of art and intellect.
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