Aggressive Primitivism:
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Georg Baselitz is known primarily as a painter who came to international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s as one of the German Neo-Expressionists. He is less well-known as a sculptor, though he has created works in space that possess the same rough and immediately expressive power as his paintings. Using a chainsaw and chisel, Baselitz has been carving sculptures in limewood and beech since 1979. |
