Rückfall

Heungkuk Life Ins. B/D
Georg Baselitz (1938~) is a pioneer of German’s Neo-Expressionism that swept the world in the 1980s. Although he is recognized as a painter, who has ushered the genre of painting into a new heyday, with strong touch of the brush, intense colors, and the simple expression of emotions, his shocking paintings in his early days swirled into a controversy. The artist, however, started to gain international recognition as he participated in Venice Biennale in 1980 as a German representative. He began to draw an object upside down since the painting, [The wood on Its Head] presented in 1969, and the painting [Rückfall], released in 2014, also depicts a human body upside down. This signifies resistance and denial against the existing traditions, customs, and the world that he belongs to. His paintings move closer to visual purity that general paintings possess by eliminating the initial meaning of the object.