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The Met receives extraordinary gift of Georg Baselitz paintings
Georg Baselitz, Working Man from Dresden - Portrait of M.G.B, 1969. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Baselitz Family, 2020, © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann.
NEW YORK, NY
.- German artist Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, have gifted six landmark paintings by the artist to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2020. The portraits, made in 1969, are among the first that Baselitz created using the radical strategy of inversion, in which the pictorial motif is literally turned upside down, enabling the artist to focus on painting s possibilities, rather than the image of the sitter in direct relationship to the viewer. The compositional and conceptual conceit of upending the figures fundamentally destabilizes the viewer s perspective, thereby thwarting our ability to firmly identify elements like narrative, content type, and artistic tradition, thus s ....

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