Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitzis a German painter. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American critics as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth23 January 1938
CountryGermany
germany
What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.
upside-down painting suitable
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
past facts paint
Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.
struggle fighting ideas
I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.
attitude responsibility artist
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
art believe play
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.
art eruption visceral
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.
You dig in and you find something.
art world way
What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
change artist ideas
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.
art world vehicle
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
art hair work-out
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.