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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
The Battlefield
Image View:
Detail, left side with female nude, dice and pictograph like forms
Creator:
A. R. Penck (German painter, 1939-2017)
Location:
exhibition: Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
623, chemin des Gardettes; exhibition "Rites de passage" (March 18-June 18, 2017)
GPS:
43.70059 7.115085
Date:
1989 (creation)
Cultural Context:
German
Style Period:
Neo-Expressionist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
acrylic paint on canvas
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); primitivism; graffiti; Art Brut; street art
Description:
Penck was a mostly self-taught artist who lived in the Communist GDR until 1980, when he was expatriated to West Germany. As early as 1960 he began to create paintings of stick figures and a range of pictograms that he called Stand-arts. From the early 1980s he was recognized for his primitive images, which he rendered in paintings, prints, and sculpture, and was acknowledged as a leader of the German Neo-Expressionist movement. (Source: Union List of Artist Names [online notes]; http://www.getty.edu /research/conducting _research/vocabulari es/ulan)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PENCK-MF-TB-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

The Battlefield