15 December 2007

Ernst Neizvestny

CRYING PRISON

series: FROM TREE OF LIFE #6


HOLOCAUST

I dont particularly like Neizvestny's work. His colors are abrupt and seem archaic. His work is violent. His shapes are not sophisticated: or maybe they are too sophisticated. It just seems his paintings are hideous, and they are too big, they are too imposing- his concept sculptures do not strike me as friendly, the work on the whole is offensive. I mean that in the sense that it attempts to battle others. Particularly myself.
I need to qualify all this: every artist tends to grow on me. Even as I searched for more images to post here, I realized I did not dislike his work nearly as much as it sounds. Instead, he wins me over with the thick lines and bold colors... Though the style of From Tree of Life #6, it still does not sit well with me. I think it is an overload for me, as far as details go. There is just too much, and it doesn't seem harmonious for some reason.

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