Format:
63 Seiten
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28 cm
ISBN:
9783864423161
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3864423163
Content:
There is a remarkable painting in the Picasso room at the Kunstmuseum in Basel: a full-length portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his muse, Marie Laurencin. It was Henri Rousseau who painted this wonderful picture. Only I had remembered it as a self-portrait of Rousseau with Madame Rousseau. Marie Laurencin was Apollinaire?s muse, Clémence Rousseau was Rousseau's muse. As it happens, Franz Marc painted a portrait of Rousseau for Der Blaue Reiter. And Picasso also had a self-portrait by Henri. There's a quite intimate photograph, taken by André Gomés, of Picasso holding Rousseau's self-portrait in his right hand and the portrait of Rousseau's wife in his left hand. Picasso, that constructor of novel objects and audacious paintings, loved Rousseau, the painter of things in rigidified grace. Even Rousseau's gaze in his self-portrait is stiff, directed at his own work, in which objects that we ourselves are familiar with look different? Gothic, Byzantine, somehow not the way we are used to seeing them. It wasn't just the Egyptian Picasso, other image constructors -- Kandinsky, for instance -- also had pictures of Rousseau. Vasily had the little canvas The Painter and His Wife (1899). De Chirico drew Picasso and friends sitting beneath Rousseau's self-portrait with palette. And didn't Beckmann paint Rousseau's hot-air balloon and his street? I myself have Rousseau's red lithograph The War (c. 1895), which was also done by Ensor and by Uccello; there's something similar by Böcklin and also by Stefano della Bella
Note:
Impressum: "Dieser Katalog erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung Georg Baselitz. Akademie Rousseau 16. März-25. April 2020, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin."
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Text deutsch und englisch
Language:
German
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Baselitz, Georg 1938-
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Zeichnung
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Bildnis
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Künstler
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Baselitz, Georg 1938-
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Zeichnung
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Bildnis
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Künstler
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Ausstellungskatalog
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Bildband
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Bildband
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Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Gohr, Siegfried 1949-
Author information:
Baselitz, Georg 1938-
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