Arafat have basil it is being portrayed in forty five minutes and honored but he doesnt want to take part in self a really. That is of action a studio is a workshop im hard at work here i cant put up with disturbances in the workshop i cant have an audience in there even if its just a camera no way. In two thousand and eleven a sensation that south that is in london the collection of count do economists going under the hammer masterworks of the Twentieth Century including nine by the young boston and. Boston its his paintings all sinister and aggressive at this function they fetched black or. Prices. One buyer paid three point two Million Pounds for spectrum not a man with a giant fantasy dating from one thousand nine hundred sixty five the highest price ever paid for a boss in its. Full gallop bozza lives in exhaustible creator of pitches stagnation is a foreign word time and again he comes up with lee interpretations of well known motifs dongs hang lightened airy in the gallery of his dales little patch in south book because it is a shy because the boss of its a certainly one of the very great painters of our age its not just in germany but internationally here certainly appreciated by the art market we see a Continuous Development of this appreciation its all for me one of the most important artists of the centuries and thats the Mission Model its a bit crass a figure because you feel good in two thousand and seven so Norman Rosenthal devoted the vol academys biggest ever retrospective to georg bassinet that months artificially shocked us as a whole i dont mean hes as important as picasso but you can talk about him in the same breath as because of this and think of him on this level this could go on and knock him every day as if you dont wish to mean this with you as i dont regard myself as the bearer of any message or as a magician who turns everything he touches to art but as opposed to it works according to and yet hes a star of the art world his works hang in the leading museums worldwide even so hes been a skinned when it comes to criticism. Should be levied or bottle to transpose on the face i have always noticed with basil its that hes incredibly sensitive to statements he sees as negative almost like a seismograph weve always thought only i get to. Call it shows home. Man recently retired curator at munichs modern art museum and the pain that could take them identify exhibited thousand hits as early as the one nine hundred seventy s. She devoted a whole room to him presenting a crosssection of his different periods to me as im a forward pain design crazy theyre very sensible very deliberate very controlled people know if they do something they know precisely why theyre doing it. Boss and its not just a painter and graphic artist and sculptor hes also a passionate collector of africa not and manner is drawings his friends say he absorbs everything i can spawn one of those who infused about father that very early on with the connector and guta through art they became friends. Browser this is if you can peer over there at it doesnt its is a family man with a nice wife and well brought up children would have sold me kinda had i missed us from the outside he could be a senior Civil Servant and hes been suffering. In two thousand and six thousand its moved from northern germany to that area setting up his consulate then a book unless saxony he settled on the shores of lake ama munich he occupies expensive premises built by architects hats oak and. Only you and all different time for a change faucets is supposed to have said. As in general to me here is a very natural frank and so for short person you dont immediately see hes not just. Too busy should be able other people usually think of artists as rather extravagant in their manner but hes not a toll plaza its was born in saxony but has declared the spot on lake ama to be his new home of choice when he sold dan a book also he also sold a large part of his collection. An American Investment banker it was time to move on. Hes not integrated sure but thats not a precondition thats the case with all celebrities there are others who are courthouses here we dont say you have to belong we want to leave him in peace after all hes supposed to be creating upgrade and thats why he came specially to bavaria i think some of. The bavarians an inquisitive bunch of mercury here i was. Battling its lives a reclusive life hidden behind fences and trains you want to be you have the artist at work get an. Honest price and so marked everything he does is quality was this is in trouble and he now lives in a house he commissioned from a very good architect. A bonus. So the variac can take pleasure in the fact that one of germanys leading artists lives here but it was a long journey. In one thousand nine hundred fifty eight bassinets moved to west berlin after being expelled from the academy of visual and applied arts in the communist east the reason given was social and political in maturity in the pulse eighteen capitalist half of the city the young painter was a man his painting was out of tune with the times he still didnt have a deal. We wouldnt eleanor know as we all had rooms of our own in a big flat share but basil its in his family already had a flat to themselves a party had been announced and i saw footmarks streaks of paint and so i thought lets go to the studio and then posits appeared behind me and said pretty roughly what are you doing here i said what am i supposed to do im an art dealer i just want to look into your studio i dont suppose theyll be another chance this is no way he said or and they asked us counties and they have a. Stick in the oven but then he thought a moment and said just a moment ago he squeezed through into the studio and came out holding a small a four folder with ten watercolors i was totally fascinated and go this absolute trust senior. In of those days you could pick up a student watercolor first thirty marks that was the going rate times ten makes three hundred dollars i keep it well i had fifty i said leave the others ill come back he said keep your fifty marks what i said thats a fair price what do you mean he said that three hundred each that if we comes off he is practiced i will not. I think its fair to imagine you. Will have to set up his gallery in one thousand nine hundred sixty three together with benyamin caps they represented boston its along with other german paintings of the wild school in the one that was used to do. This lets have a sit down and. There are still works by basel its in the galleries depository early works even though he hasnt been basel it says official deal if a song lands now. In. The early work by gail basil its was not in chile with the times it is dark in color dark psychologically and obscene his paintings were provocative most especially the big night down the drain. On the early years of germanys affluent Society People didnt want to see this filth or they didnt want to figures at all they wanted nothing to do with the past they didnt want this dirty colors they wanted their clean fridge and their shiny car but they didnt want to be confronted with the dirt of the past what element intellect africa had finished constantine and pushed i thought that went hand in hand with the economic miracle in germany people wanted to sweep it all under the carpet i dont mean they wanted to deny it all but they treated it as an episode you could easily forget i had it to sort of argument over its i guess in life suggestion contra. But there was a group of young painters prepared to confront the past whatever the artist opposition and said among those fighting for a new espresso in style. Alongside bartletts and his dealer and we share them with the painters and are paying him and off and market at. Marcus new tatts painter and sculptor in his studio as an old friend and colleague in those basel it is what well his art was to start with and i thought an act of rebellion. Is gonna buy the album and there was a general consensus that painting should be free of pornography free of smart feet at most you could paint nudes but it had to be serious all the nude wasnt art will betide those who contravene this noble concept of art as embodying dignity and perfection you must remember these are the terms in which people talked of painting them with the full and dont want to sit in a divine theyre bigger if it isnt for a living in their mother by dr. Bassinets Respectable Society that has dark works one exhibition and the vanna and cats gallery sparked a scandal the tabloids had a great time they shared. Their candidate the scandal was got up by me in modern british he had good contacts to the hacks in berlin it was the silly season and they needed a headline or two so we gave them one vice squad move in they screamed it was all lies. Did they are the scottish way out from the Public Prosecutor had never heard of it asked us to write it on the abyss below to arrive promptly the next day to cover that plan next into. It worked the Public Prosecutor stepped in the pictures were confiscated the press had a field day and then was it. Last an Advertising Campaign for boston. Does a lot of promotion first of all it was a publicity stunt and it worked only we gain nothing from it we didnt have the courage to tell basel its wed made it all up because he was an extremely fragile neurotic type to you they have devalued by their four deals a very slow. We were both unsuccessful artists and basel its was subjected to more tax than i was even by the Public Prosecutor i believe. Hopped. Off but he was very brave about it i think he may even have been pleased because at least his name became known to the public so if you do become shot he fears that you have to leave. Time then this whole litany faked his pictures didnt sell any better. Stop im fall for unplugs it was a court case the pictures were confiscated there was a huge outcry in the press they really went for me i was certainly annoyed to say the least and it was very unpleasant as. Was to not remember that as i was after this exhibition basel its really turned against berlin and left the city i think he still doesnt like it. He and his family moved to the country in one nine hundred seventy five he bought dan a book consul never held. His body and kept growing while the attributes of his not remained abrasive and sinister his reputation as a specific german painter. And. It is two days ago it started to ease in this tradition hes a german painter he acknowledges his debt to the german expressionists and to auto dix people say he embraces his ugly painting but can you call to the village about it i dont think so you can call them hush and there is certainly a certain harshness in the german art tradition. Good enough out and deal with the german a sounds this is the tradition in which basel it sees himself as a painter. The form of george the accusation of being german you have to see how you cope with that you have to ask what sort of defense you can make but thats what i did was just ask what does german painting look like. And i began where one does begin with. In comparison with their contemporaries in italy france or england and here german painting does stand out and it stands out because it is ugly and on the others it is ugly for very definite reasons it doesnt operate on a life size scale things are reduced so theres a particular form of abstraction which people are mostly placed in landscapes where they dont belong for example in danger and so it. Gayo bosnich was born again or can in the village of doj bosn its in saxony in one nine hundred thirty eight his parents were teaches it was only in one nine hundred sixty one that he changed his name to that of the village where he spent his childhood already as a teenager he demonstrated his artistic skills in drawings as well as the german harshness. Of care trade and i think its true of all artists that to a certain extend like all of us they bear the stamp of their environment their history so they are bound into this cultural situation but to call him the most german of all german painters i really dont know what that supposed to mean but on. The korean artists say oh stop it at the burnin on to cademy she was in professor vogl its cause in two thousand and three she became his monster pupil. I have tile had just and i had painted some really cheerfully colored pictures and one day he came into the studio and took all the brushes and paintings off the trolley and put them to one side he only left me some very narrow asia brushes and black and white paint begin with these he said its just dont try to imitate european pain. And dont forget where you come from which i dont think youre clueless ok Dennis Ferguson photo here comes positive had a few years ago basel its confronted the works of american painters and we exhibited these works here in south spoke and in pairs he said he looked at the coon and twice and wanted to imitate the brush strokes of this Great American painter brushstroke he also looked at the works of Jackson Pollock and as he tried out the dripping technique which is good for all that he could never escape from his own brush technique of course because it is simply so striking in so mark hannitys this is africa and if profit is like a language the way he uses the brush in the sim shirish decisions be to order it dish or did he said the strength of the stroke develops the trail left by the brush that is so uniquely bartletts that try as he might to learn from other artists he can ultimately not get away from his own technique of to name it well its any kind of an accident and i said im going to be interesting he can give. You if youre a painter you have to paint for example with your feet or with your nose or from behind or back to front you must take no notice of anyone who might be embarrassing but whos going to want you in the studio its a scream its companies are very poor for july. And they bassinets doesnt allow himself to be observed at rock he now paints his pictures on the floor but that has not deprived him of any of them momentum. I vacillate says never actually achieved harmony hes always been the aggressive painter and thats what sets him apart in the mahler i could leave him on just what in your. Bassinets remains true to himself as an artiste. The most effect of maybe i need to go back to his most famous group of works i mean the heroes of the heroes such can be found in greek antiquity but when we think of Central Europe then theres a particular image of the hero that very strongly bears the mark of germany saffron dosh and get paid decent includes the idea and the large does feed off to care for after all that happened in germany and austria in the one nine hundred thirty s. And fortys an artist who maintains this critical detachment and takes up the themes of the hero its a chaotic and bonuses team of this is that its got a great deal to do with german history he made his head of it off to cry from the transaction often it gets authority so whats a hero then she things that arent any heroes anymore you know its a dog for him a brave man simply someone praised in song with tattoos in his honor someone who does Something Special like a knife god actually my. Knife gods and artist heroes. And his friends. On the left. And michel and then on the right the brave men of the art business. Did that mission kind of poor cats your heroes provocative i cant follow that argument and falsely their quote illustrations on his view of the artist. As as the dash to construction says to construct the third depiction of the artist as he felt him to be in those days isolated under attack attack here at. The hearing the pictures serve to point up artistic selfassertion bunzl it himself calls one of them ideal picture and gift of god another way to book a revelation. So i know the nature of the i dont draw profession but a situation and attitude which was very aggressive and turned its back on what was happening in berlin and elsewhere different. But all those. Went as its why for example. On the way to work is a collage of the whole situation. Was a painter from saxony thats important and hes not held in high regard his work borders on. Basel its only mentioned him in the title or and that at that was a done computer and was good looked at the picture itself is his own idea of himself id say but he said. Thats an option that sort of is in new york in one thousand nine hundred ninety one a buyer paid the record price of more than a Million Dollars for look at this rishta only way to work its precisely there were meant to carry paintings that still make top prices possible its pictures can be found in all the major museums and collectors are still often. Do you consider me he is of course an artist who never sticks to a cycle for very long but always quickly moves on to the next wed often prefer him to stick a bit longer to a particular series simply because the demand is there for completed groups of works but this curiosity this desire to jump from one thing to the next that fascinates me too in that sense every visit his studio is a surprise because you never know what youre going to get to see but its emerged. Its always the next thing while you still got the last one in your head youre surprised because the next ones theyre already in. The home market the bartletts is an upside down motif painterly trick maintaining to this game. That no two hundred nine hundred sixty nine bartletts has been standing his motives on their head this trick allows him to treat the subject more objective lee he can deflect attention from the obvious the magic statement and direct it towards the purely painterly as he puts it it only for me are known as are the hatchet ever called me and said i have it i know how to do it im going to paint abstract great i said then ill paint things on the head too no he said i just wanted to tell my friends so we must all paint things on their heads for a year because georgs invented it that said no hed rather do it alone and thats what he did for that one argument. A simple idea with a huge effect on the forest upside down in this way boston is revolutionized traditional Landscape Painting and gave it a new lease of life. People. Thought about it is method of inverting pictures is only possible when its deliberately seen as abstract otherwise itd be just silly to paint the world on its head thats not enough there must be some intellectual contemporary reference and in that sense its the highest form of abstraction to form the obstruction. The white kid gallery in london on display at boston it serious a fool an eagles an old motif reinterpreted and almost compulsively repeated it refuses to leave the artist or learn. To see the good as consequently you see pollock and all the abstract painting which has a sense of quality versus sponsors delish. This comes apart you see the falling if you like as black tears but the subject is of course the evil jewish there are powerful. Elf wanted to control it if he wanted control over the subject but at the same time he wanted to get as far away as possible from the immediate meaning of the concrete object of course even if you stand the german eagle on its head the concrete meaning is obviously still there that ye might as i kind of piece said he wasnt a political artist but he is a political artist that doesnt mean he takes to the barricades but he is a thinking artist and he thinks about the truths the falling eagle is of course an important german symbol like the tree in the forest list the tradition of bush the good torture symbol the forest is of course a major german thing right in the bush because story just came out. You know the i had some estimate and everyone who sees a puzzle its for the first time tries to twist the head around in order to see what its a picture of. And i mean to shift it as a shown that in itself means they take half a minute longer looking at the picture than they would if it were the right way up. This is the second demand i. E. You can recognize the quality of the painting better if the picture is a little more abstract theres been a dress up stacked up its. Its no secret that basel its paint his pictures upside down from the outset he doesnt simply turn them around he constantly seeks to liberate painting from the constraints of naturalism and creates a new dimension in which the motifs reorganize themselves. You. Are missing a man off the end stuffed or wasnt understood sort of but i still miss a serious discussion because i think the program ive presented transcends and needs more than one painter or of me a plugged as i and mother as i tell shawn for brotherhood spirit of them coffee there were upside down pictures before basel its in the one nine hundred fifty s. There were painters whose names i forgotten but they had no influence he did it at the right moment for going the order as i say brant have taught at psych enough but it was such an iconic position that anyone else who did it would have been seen as an inferior imitator no painter once that you know came out of it its it was so unambiguous and so easy to imitate that the territory was occupied or was it dammit i guess bizets. Gail basil it says one of those artists whove managed to grow rich in their own lifetime sales of his art enabled him to buy a castle he lived in the den a book near hildas home for more than thirty years. And they should meet the cranes ply their course through the heavens look once look twice and then look at me again. If introducing conform i find this compromise on the part of painters who paint something you can put in the landscape very bad for. Its a compromise i think a landscape doesnt have to stand comparison with the painted landscape which does in fact like the other half they also devise a lemon is the only valves on the white canvas is the universe and this universe is weightless it has no gravity it has no light and no dark you have to introduce all of that yourself youre not dependent on the earths gravity heavy weights mean nothing you dont need a caterpillar truck to move a work you can do it in two brushstrokes but once youve understood this image of the canvas then everything is possible including painting things upside down and in principle everythings abstract painting is abstract then you have all sorts of attempts to transfer this to something representation of stanfords hoover thats in english thats it and theyre also attempts to transfer it into something totally abstract abstract its a transport in the script is out for me the question of abstract or not abstract simply doesnt arise. Of pictures painted upside down have remained basil its trademark admittedly one thats worn a little thin its mama victors and in some foster like its easy to overlook in the face of this upside down painting that this isnt why hes a great artist its just that hes a virtual painter and sometimes the idea is overvalued relative to the fact that the picture is a great work of art that it. Doesnt its has not yet found it a school based on the style but truth and painting is getting a new impetus and asserting itself in Art Historical terms. Now i ask you who is the more important for the history of music or paganini or beethoven or there are any reasonable person will say beethoven but that he has his own press is so big that. Hell say beethoven didnt just refine and present existing music but also added his own style. Games on a big. Of the beethoven created was a wholly new styles on which Young Musicians other musicians can build so you have to look at a picture and ask is it paganini whole beethoven is. His baiters it off. Limits and boundaries because its number in their mouth when you sat down with basel its he lives on a farm at the time he do an album come back with a bird in his hand he was the only person i know who was able to pluck a bird out from under the eaves and hes a man with mystery so thats what makes him an unusual man from its own. Lips his forty two years old when he was imparted to exhibit in the german billion at the one thousand eight hundred venice biennale. If the beer knowledge is still the accolade for an artist and everyone thought he did exhibit pictures that we knew upside down pictures that was already his trademark hed become well known with these upside down pictures but what did he do for the first time he made a sculpture yes my finest hour. Yossef boys thought possible its a sculpture not even worthy of the first semester. And he succeeded with the sculpture and then he didnt need to hang the triptychs anymore or rather depict. With such german names as German School very nice pictures session of into the budget battle he was asked at the time why he hadnt exhibited any pictures but then he stopped. Just over to the top of the german pows villian has been filled up with sculptures on the last two occasions all with just one in the case of a look at him and then again with voice its a tradition i wanted to follow in the shorter voyages and i must also do so he did a sculpture that was derived from african models archaic african sculpture ritual sculptures it was a figure leaning backwards with one arm raised this was misinterpreted people said ah a german artist comes and makes a statue giving a nazi salute that was total rubbish of course he thought all the trick would stay on and the woman hitched up the people simply didnt look hard enough theyd just delivered a preconceived verdict like a cliche it was most of my stuff and youd have to be a champion in not looking in order to see an outstretched arm with the palm facing upwards as a nazi salute with the. Colors that i was found on the outside not on the inside its unmistakable they must have been blind. Scripture says youre the shining sure there are things about the sculpture you can criticize but all in all i find it a successful contribution or attempt on my part or. Continue to make sculptures the roughness of his paintings its reflected in the word he uses. As for physicians it was evidently in shooting with the times sculpture was on the decline somehow it had grown too fond of stone and bone painters meanwhile were evidently able to discover and pursue new paths in sculpture. And posits as in all his works provided a new way and i write these magnificent sculptures big believe for them for we gave. Them goals are things going to only come. Back when it started the art of africa and its powerful expressiveness. It was obvious. Basel its is like a sponge he has a lot of things in his head of an african art not the whole of african art but certain things exerted a huge influence on him and he reshaped them in his own way if you like and made his own art out of art with or and walked past his and of course. Most of his sculptures are of wood figures or heads or legs with feet even after thirty years his sculptural output comprises only around forty watts not much compared with the number of quickly painted pictures. Of really does a ive seen him do sculptures legs they were which he looked out and said that wont do so he took a chainsaw and sold them us the x. Because i say you know in contrast to your school to insert it. Possibly its hard as obviously i have all the artists that i know basel its has the most objective sense of its own work. The. Fish fish. Bassinets is proud to show his wife what he has done and she in turn is not shy of offering a few comments but her verdict in the end a good piece of work not just the countrys last book so. This is called. To remember if you couldnt. Keep the nation you are in big theres not just one way there are many ways and above all there are diversions in order to get out of this tangle you need help the send off to kid that i was is filing an estimate that this there are my children are but above all my wife is metaphor that also goes for my own uncertainties i appreciate the criticism to take. Him a for me so i mustnt so me it was always someone quite capable of criticising not in the sense that such and such is bad and doesnt interest me but in the sense of what possibility is do i have to move and i go along with that and ask what possibilities does he have these have to be seen and discovered and the impulse is mutual when supplied. Gale bartlett sent you want to turn mays at a joint exhibition in berlin they share a birthday and an expression as to painting style means that there is a generation younger and. Defeated a good women but there are many rules on how to paint a picture but there are no rules on how not to do it he paints according to the rules on how not to do it i like that its unconventional that doesnt mean hes better than me. And you know boston its also about writes. Out on out sometimes reflecting on his own and hostile work. Badly to underfund and vacillates has begun to repaint important early works and i first heard about this when he phoned and said carla you must come to down a borg and see my new pictures theyre magnificent ive been repainting old pictures you see i thought for heavens sake that can only be a flop and i wish i knew what i need it i thought hed be painting some sort of copy. In two thousand and eight he repainted the big night down the drain he was liberating himself from the ghosts of the past. With a detachment of the men to artist basel its confronted his early works he repainted old motifs and called the cycle remakes. Become of this shamanic how can you keep reinventing all this how can you keep on redefining yourself and take up seems youve already dealt with as you did in remakes i thought that was risky that the founders of this count them at least these pictures are major works in the great museums and if you try to measure yourself against your own works of course theres a risk i didnt miss it was it is hard mahler there was a. Basel it is not a painter who can escape modernism in my opinion this will be the next step in the history of painting. On god yes and now with the remakes pictures hes planted himself firmly there and are interested. Back. In two thousand and six thousand its moved to bavaria that same year take them all down in the mix pictures interpret it king work. Behind me are done via by and very quickly we arranged a major exhibition with the remakes pictures it was our first big exhibition and during the preparation this oh so tranquil artist was in a complete panic on the. Dock of. Him for much of his famous and recognized but he was in a blind funk and how would the pictures go down too tough on people to follow could people accept them but he does accept here. In atlanta he still thinks his old pictures are great he realized that when he was repainting annoyed about global does this kind of i dont think thats a continuation or an extension of the themes but rather that the themes are simply part of our history now hes liberated from all the fanatic constraints and hes in a position simply to paint without constraints without threats without happiness on happiness or sentimentality or on its ring or on the dollar in order to. Own or glue keys reached a situation which can almost be described as olympian theres in the log he can move his paints freely around his canvas from afar and i find that fascinating. Gale bassinets is now at the pinnacle of his fame his work doesnt betray his age. As a s. T. R. And hell never die. Hes over seventy now but inside hes got five hundred sixty horsepower he doesnt stand still he drives so fast hes a visionary i dont know where his creative thoughts will stop because hes such an inquisitive person by then theyll join in noida get it in the main show us today his artwork so becoming more playful the expressive brush stroke has remained but he creates much more lightness on the canvas even so no one should feel quite sure that things will stay this way for this artist is continually the inventing himself. Trying to get off to a roaring stock i did detroit to. Trace it to favorites. Anticipated well in crimea. And visions for a cause of the future. Im trying to. Thirty minutes telling go. D. W. Media center see it find it here it discover. Video and audio podcast to language courses in the g w media center at media center dot d. W. Dot com. To learn german with d w any time any place. Whether. Jojo and her friends. 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