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He just crashed very high into my favorite painters ever list. So impressive, check out the rest of his work here.
::update:: Well maybe you're better off NOT to check it, at least not the stuff before 2005. The 2005 stuff I LOVE.
But the stuff before that, maybe a matter of taste, but I just discovered he also made really sick disturbing stuff that's just sick sick sick that I think is just so disturbing I don't even want to link it here (it's at his watercolors section "the intrusion", most specifically, well most of that page in general actually.). Why!? Whyyy? How can that be! ...

целую, князь ([info]activatemorlack) wrote, @ 2006-06-10 01:48:00 ...

Mercedes Helnwein says: "from Robert Crumb to Alfred Kubin, and from Bukowski to the Blues [these artists] have helped push me in various directions, ultimately landing me in a style of my own."
She continues: "I think the power of visual art – what it does to the viewer, what it stirs up or lets loose – is something that can’t be transcribed into words, at least not with great accuracy. Therefore I find it hard to go into great detail about the mechanics of creating art or finding subject matter. I draw whatever amuses me at that specific moment in time. It feels good, it feels like it needs to be done – and so I indulge in it. ...

This month FanMail client NOCTALUCA released their album "Towering the Sum" to a frenzy of anticipation and critical acclaim.
In a recent newsletter to their fans, Noctaluca introduced GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN and exlained how the artist inspired the album. The really cool thing about the newsletter is that it was almost entirely about something other than themselves. No cheesy self portraits or "here are our tour dates" or "thanks to the people who love us". The entire newsletter was focused on the artist that had influenced them.
Bravo! ...

Konsequent und virtuos. Technische Meisterschaft und auch die Konsequenz einer packenden sozialkritischen Thematik offenbaren sich in dieser Ausstellung: Gewalt, Schmerz, Verletzung werden dargestellt. Den Körper ebenso wie die Psyche betreffend. Helnwein dokumentiert hier in Linz einen künstlerischen Reifegrad, der eine weitere Steigerung kaum vorstellbar macht. Seine Eingriffe sind von einer schmerzhaften Unmittelbarkeit, deren emotionale Energie weit über die großen Bildformate hinaus den Raum und sein Publikum ergreift. (Irene Judmayer - Oberösterreichische Nachrichten) ...

ALL CONTENT © NICK KUSHNER 2006
EXCLUDING IMAGES BY GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN ...

Drei Topfilme über den Starkünstler Gottfried Helnwein - darunter eine brandneue, 2006 entstandene Dokumentation.
19.00 Uhr "Der Provokateur" von C. Teissig, 2006 (45 min.)
20.00 Uhr "Helnwein" von Peter Hajek, 1984 (45 min.)
21.00 Uhr "Neunter November Nacht", 2003 (25 min.) Dokumentation über Helnweins Aufsehen erregende Kölner Aktion zum 50. Jahrestag der "Reichskristallnacht" ...

I have a few weeks to choose my destination for my next University year.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR OPINION!!!
Both cities are the capitals of the countries, both are beautiful, both have a big history behind them & I'm in love with both of them.
VIENNA:
It's the city of Beethoven, Strauss, Falco, Klimt, Hundertwasser, Helnwein, Kaiser Franz-Joseph, Sissi, Sigmund Freud, ... It's the country of Mozart, Swarovski, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schubert, Haydn, ....
Main language: German
It's the 4th most visited city in Europe. ...

Κοιτάζοντας το τελευταίο τευχος του spartandog θυμήθηκα τον Gottfried Helnwein. Eίναι γνωστός στο ευρύ κοινό για την αυτοπροσωπογραφία του, που το 1982 έγινε εξώφυλλο του blackout των scorpions. Σαν εικαστικός γενικότερα χαρακτηρίστηκε απο τους αερογράφους και τα ακρυλικα που έκανε τις δεκάετιες 70 και 80 που σοκάριζαν και προκαλούσαν με τα "φιλο-νοσοκομειακα" και βίαια θέματα του. ...

Gottfried Helnwein - ein künstlerischer Anarchist aus Prinzip. Seine Bilder erzählen von apokalyptischen Visionen. Schon seit Beginn seiner Karriere ist Helnwein umstritten. Claudia Teissig porträtiert den genialen Blickfänger. ...

Katalog. Linz 2006. Beitr. von Stella Rollig, Thomas Edlinger u.a. 4to. 224 S. mit 203 meist farb., teils ganz- bzw. doppelseit. Abb., Chronologie, Ppbd. - Text in dt. & engl. Sprache.
Bestell-Nr: lgrde-1366901 | EUR 39.90 ...

Did you know that Gottfried "Helnwein also has a strong sense of theatre. He has worked in opera, designing sets and costumes for Maximilian Schell and working with the equally notorious Austrian choreographer Johann Kresnik. His poster for the 1988 production of Lulu at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg caused outrage across Europe. A tiny Sigmund Freud in a long coat stares up at a gigantic woman, who lifts her skirt to expose her vagina. The opposite of porn, it provocatively illustrates Wedekind's view of a sexually ambiguous bourgeois society on the brink of destruction. This iconography overturns the 1929 screen image of Louise Brooks as Lulu in G W Pabst's Pandora's Box. Whereas that film presents us with a face, Helnwein shows the pubis. " . . . according to an article by Julia Pascal in the current issue of New Statesman, a very serious British journal. ...

(October 8, 1948 in Vienna) is an Austrian-Irish fine artist
His early work consists mainly of hyper-realistic watercolors, depicting wounded children, as well as performances - often with children - in public spaces
Besides his realistic work, Helnwein also began to develop abstract, expressive styles of painting during this period.
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صدق أو لا تُصدق .. كل ما سبق مرسوم و ليس مصورا ً، اللوحات مرسومة بأكثر من نوع ألوان، ما بين ألوان الماء و الفحم و الباستل و الأكريليك، و الزيت.
مازلت ُ لا أصدق أن هذه اللوحات مرسومة .. لازلت ُ عاجزا ً إلا عن الانبهار.
ملحوظة : بيكاسو مجرد مجتهد، دافنشي مش قد كدة ، رينوار محتاج يمارس أكتر فن الرسم، فان جوخ عيل في حارة الرسامين .. و لو كل ده مرسوم يبقى أنا جورج كلوني. ...

Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Wien ...

Texts, reviews and essays referring to the art of Gottfried Helnwein in Museums, important art-collections and installations in public spaces.
Texte, Rezensionen und Essays die sich auf die Kunst von Gottfried Helnwein in Museen, Sammlungen und im Öffentlichen Raum beziehen. ...

缠着绷带的孩子，幼稚儿童脸上的撕裂之后再次缝合的伤口。
如同爬虫类一样冰冷而无机质毫不感觉痛楚的眼神。
画者那种权威而细致的表现伤害的冷静让当时的大众无法接受。
71年到73年， Helnwein的作品展览无一不受到抵制。
维也纳的一家画廊展出他的画作，结果不到三天就被迫关闭。
甚至维也纳附近一座城市的市长下令将 Helnwein的作品没收。
当时他的反对者喊出的理由是这些作品是“the Nazis”。
因为他对待伤口、死亡、折磨与伤害是带着那样一种天真的热情态度来描写，所以人们忍受不了吗？ ...

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"Helnwein's subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead creates the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within."
Robert Flynn Johnson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ...