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Master of German painting after the war
gertrude Georg Baselitz's Inverted Art
He paints it upside down! Focus on the canvas, turn the world around!
gertrude Baselitz expanded beyond canvas to create rough, hacked wooden sculptures that shocked the 1980 Venice Biennale.
gertrude Baselitz's first solo show in West Berlin in 1963 caused a public scandal and police intervention.
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Upside-down painting: Georg Baselitz does not paint right-side up and flip it; he actually paints his subjects upside down from the very start.
The reversal of the normal position, order, or relation of something. In 1969, Georg Baselitz began painting his subjects upside down to emphasize pure form over narrative content.
Which controversial painting by Georg Baselitz was confiscated by Berlin police during his 1963 exhibition?
In which city did police raid Georg Baselitz's first solo exhibition and confiscate two paintings in 1963?
Which painting was Georg Baselitz's very first inverted (upside-down) work, created in 1969?
What tool did Georg Baselitz use to carve his controversial 1980 Venice Biennale sculpture?
Why was Georg Baselitz expelled from the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin?