[golden virginia]

And now for something completely different Herren und Damen !

[JessieWilliam]

Would I be going totally off the rails if I went searching German pop art for a solution?

[golden virginia]

Its German, - artist lived the same time as Pop - but no - he is not pop.

I actually put in the coloured balls of red and yellow to throw ye off the scent a bit - I thought it was going to be really obvious.

Clue - I saw this piece in IMMA a few years ago!

Ps - kool signature

[bastados]

The phone shown is an affront to my frontal lobes and has blinded my all seeing cosmic eye..till further notice

[golden virginia]

Ah Bastados - that poor phone was cutting edge technology in its day


Clue **** He was the most influential German artist of the 20th Century

[bastados]

Joseph beuys?

[JessieWilliam]

Originally Posted by golden virginia

Clue **** He was the most influential German artist of the 20th Century

What! . . 'The Hoff' done this?

[golden virginia]

Joseph Beuys; Earth- Telephone ( 1968)

Over to you Bastados!

[bastados]

Always thought Beuys relied too heavily on concept and not enough aesthetic value..ie not a huge fan.

I'll be back with something , hopefully later on in the day today.

[bastados]

Originally Posted by bastados

Always thought Beuys relied too heavily on concept and not enough aesthetic value..ie not a huge fan.

I'll be back with something , hopefully later on in the day today.

Someone best step in with the next piece as my MAC has gone south till I get it fixed...sorry bout that.

[Oblomov]

GV, would you like to present the next?

[golden virginia]

Thanks Oblomov, - but how about yourself? If your stuck I am delighted to do it, but it would be nice to see your next creation?

[golden virginia]

Well, here it goes....

Same ole' camouflage pattern from me , but its a new theme - Artist Self Portrait.

[Oblomov]

Ltttle bit hetic at the mo... meetings all day toddy, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are frantic.

So, thank you for kind consideration and for posting one.

[JessieWilliam]

It was the steely cold blue eye that gave it away . . .He had to be a German.



Otto Dix, Self-Portrait with Muse, 1924, oil and tempera on canvas, 31 7/8 x 37 3/8 inches, Osthaus Museum Hagen

Here the fully clothed, thin-lipped, stern-faced fair-haired male artist encounters an almost comically over-endowed, flamboyantly ethnic — whether Semitic or Latin — woman. He confronts her, he is confronted by her, as she raises her hand in a gesture which can be read as a greeting, a blessing, or a stoppage, a counter-action to the reach of his brush which is in effect creating her. She is hardly the passive creation of a Pygmalion and if you look at some of the depictions of women by fascist-approved artists of the same general period in Germany you immediately get what makes this painting so different and seditious even though it does portray a naked woman and a clothed man, a familiar theme in the history of Western representation.