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Dimensions: image: 280 x 177 mm mount: 561 x 411 x 4 mm
Copyright: © Georg Baselitz | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This striking ink drawing is by Georg Baselitz, and it's held at the Tate. The frantic lines definitely convey a sense of unease to me. How do you interpret this work? Curator: It's like a frantic dance of lines, isn't it? Baselitz is a master of the raw and unfiltered. I see a figure, maybe in distress, maybe in ecstasy. What do you feel when you trace those frantic marks? Editor: Definitely a sense of urgency, almost like a scream captured on paper. Curator: Exactly. It’s that raw, guttural emotion that makes Baselitz so compelling. It makes you want to scream too, doesn't it? Editor: It does. It's far more evocative than I first thought.
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Baselitz’s vigorous and expressive style, influenced by the drawing and paintings of the mentally ill, often represents the body as a site of anxiety. This series of prints show a female figure crouching and twisted. The body is fragmented: in some works, the head is cropped, while others feature only isolated limbs. The hatched and scored quality adds to the sense of raw spontaneity and even violence. Many of the prints include flowers and vegetation which, with the use of greens and browns, suggest wild nature and fertility. Gallery label, July 2015
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