Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: The Battlefield

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
The Battlefield
Image View: 
Detail, lower left corner with 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/vocabularies/ulan)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-PENCK-MF-TB-A05
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.