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Per Kirkeby

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg

Georg Baselitz

Finger painting - Female Nude, 1972

Oil on canvas

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg

“In 1969, Georg Baselitz came up with the idea of turning his motifs upside down. He has been doing so ever since.

The upside-down motif can be regarded as an attempt to challenge and potentially change the way we look at pictures. He also began experimenting with his so-called 'finger paintings', painting with his fingers to achieve a rawer result. During the 1970s, he also frequently based his paintings on polaroid photos (either his own or from books), highlighted by the distinctive white margin he has left around his motif.

Fingermalerei - Weiblicher Akt was based on a photo of Baselitz's wife Elke: the artist's supreme muse. The structure of the picture challenges our gaze. In the upper part of the picture, where in a portrait the face would normally appear, he has painted Elke's naked body. He has also given her genital area such a central position that we are compelled to look at and relate to it.”

PILLAR OF LIGHT . by Slonaut . 2024 . Belgium

Lars Nørgård (65 today) is a Danish artist, trained at Skolen for Brugskunst i København (1975-78) and Academy of Art College, San Francisco (1980-81). He was part of the generation of ‘The Young and Wild’ in the 80s.

Nørgård has made public art for the Royal Danish Opera and many other institutions and is at all the major Danish museums - Kunsten, Aalborg; SMK; Trapholt; Arken; ARoS, etc.