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Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist.In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings.In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting. [1]
This artist has mastered the art of upside-down painting.
It hung upside down at MOMA for 47 days in 1961. [8] [9] Georgia O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree (1929) depicts a tree from its foot. It hung up upside down in 1931 and between 1979 and 1989. Her Oriental Poppies hung upside down for 30 years at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. [8] Long Grass With Butterflies, 1890
In the early 1950s, Kuniyoshi contracted cancer, [26] and ended his art career with a series of black-and-white drawings using sumi-e ink. [ citation needed ] He died on May 14, 1953, aged 63 [ 4 ] and is interred at the Woodstock Artists Cemetery in Woodstock, New York.
Paul Booth (born in 1967 in Boonton [1]) is a tattoo artist, sculptor, painter, filmmaker and musician living in New York City.Booth is known for his use of black and gray ink tattoo work depicting dark surrealism styled pieces.
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Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano. [11] Born into a family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, [12] Kusama began drawing pictures of pumpkins in elementary school and created artwork she saw from hallucinations, works of which would later define her career. [9]
Mark Wallinger (born 25 May 1959) is an English artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain.His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.