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The important Vienna Actionist Hermann Nitsch once said, ""Red is the color that people register the most because it is simultaneously the color of life and death."" Originally inspired by French Tachisme and American Abstract Expressionism, Nitsch began working with paint in the late 1950s and early 60s, putting on ""theatrical painting actions"" in order to produce large-scale spill paintings. Up until the very early 1960s, his canvases were often still stained with evocative rivers of red paint; over the ensuing years, he would gradually replace paint with blood and stretched canvases with unstretched bed sheets, bringing an assortment of new and highly charged ""materials"" into his practice, including internal organs, animal cadavers and human bodies. From the 1960s until the late 1990s, Nitsch staged nearly 100 ritualistic performance actions in his Theater of Orgies and Mysteries series. Through the complete set of these often incendiary actions, which included live slaughters, dance, music and other pagan gestures, Nitsch realized his concept for a total work of art that brings together painting, architecture and music with the catharsis of self-recognition.
Der Begriff Wirklichkeiten stammt von Otto Breicha und bildet den Titel einer Ausstellung der Künstler Wolfgang Herzig, Martha Jungwirth, Kurt Kappa Kocherscheidt, Peter Pongratz, Franz Ringel und Robert Zeppel-Sperl in der Wiener Secession im Jahr 1968. Ganz im Gegensatz zu den gleichzeitig wirkenden Malern der Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus, aber fasziniert von der Art Brut, geht es hauptsächlich um eine Neupositionierung innerhalb der inzwischen verschiedensten Aus-prägungen von Abstraktion. Martha Jungwirth erinnert sich an die Aus-stellung von 1968: Wer auf der Höhe der Zeit war, war Konzeptkünstler. In dieser Situation ist da durch die Wirklichkeiten ganz schön viel an Malerei passiert, und die Ausstellung war ein Beweis, dass noch durchaus gemalt und gezeichnet werden kann - und zwar sehr gut.
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My name is Sonja Skillingstad, and I have been inspired to write about myself during my early years and the beautiful angel lady sent to assist me during the serious abuse I was receiving from my mother.
Catalogue for the 'Sprit and Vision - Aboriginal Art', Aboriginal Art in the Essl Collection, Austria, 2004; 'spirit' in the title relates to art drawing on tradition, "vision" relates to future developments in Aboriginal art; article by Djon Mundine annotated separately