{i am a madwoman right now. soon enough i'll burn out/fade away.}
{& yes, this was a school assignment, so kill me.} ...

THE SYMBOLISM OF GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Gottfried Helnwein Viyanalı bir sanatçı. Fotoğraf çekiyor, resim yapıyor, karışık tekniklerle hazıladığı dev boyutlarda işleriyle açık alan enstalasyonları düzenliyor. İşlerinin hepsi tuhaf, tedirgin edici ve çok etkileyici. Sanatçının işleri 10 Mart – 5 Haziran 2006 tarihlerinde “Gottfried Helnwein: Face It!” adlı bir sergi ile Avusturya’nın Linz şehrindeki Lentos modern sanatlar müzesinde sergilenecek. Linz şehri, her yıl düzenlenen dijital sanat festivali “Ars Electronica” ile tanınıyor, ancak ne yazık ki Helnwein’ın sergisi ile festival aynı tarihlere rastlamıyor. ...

Un rientro in Austria, dopo un volontario esilio. Sembra che ad averlo trascinato da queste parti sia stata la corrente del Danubio, giacché l’approdo è avvenuto sulla riva di questo fiume. Dove spicca un museo...
Lentos ha fatto, e fa, parlare di sé. È il nome della nuova sede del museo d’arte contemporanea di Linz, ricca e famosa città danubiana. Lentos è un grande edificio dalla forma di parallelepipedo con epidermide di vetro, che dal tramonto all’alba cambia colore in continuazione. Ha la vocazione cromatica del camaleonte, ma non per mimetizzarsi, anzi tutto il contrario. In effetti anche le mostre che propone hanno la seduzione del richiamo impetuoso e un taglio particolarmente penetrante. Come quella in corso, per esempio: sfacciata, perturbante, provocatoria fino all’insostenibilità. È tutta così l’opera di Gottfried Helnweil (Vienna, 1948): le sue armi pittoriche sono fin troppo figurative, il suo linguaggio più che realistico, le sue trame sempre inquietanti. Face It, titolo della mostra, è una retrospettiva e una mostra tematica nello stesso tempo, dove il viso umano è soggetto e leitmotiv. ...

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. ...

About two days ago I saw the Gottfried Helnwein portrait on TV, and though it was roughly 45 minutes only, it showed much of what I expected before... The best aspect about this film was the portrayal of his intention, which eventually led to the moment where my mother understood that he shows what others look away from or ignore, but not what he himself thinks to be "beautiful" in the sense of perfection or what he personally adores. Another thing: a quote. "Ich habe meine Nase in alles reingesteckt, wie eine Wildsau."
He said something like this, referring to the differend media he used and uses. Me and my girlfriend
were laughing, and we believed what he said. ...

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. ...

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world. Flickr: Photos tagged with lentos - Gottfried Helnwein - Ausstellung @ Lentos, Linz From ernstl · Lentos Helnwein From Gnal · Lentos Art Museum on the Danube From spullara · Lentos at Nigh ...

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 ...