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Shelley’s Art Musing – Spotlight on Anselm Kiefer
There are some people out there who feel that art has a healing quality, whether it be for the artist or the audience, this can be through a series of techniques working from art therapy to the exploration of taboo subjects. Anselm Kiefer definitely works to the latter. His art uses a series of combined themes and images which explore some very tragic historical events. Born in 1945 Kiefer was bought up in the devastation that World War II left his birth place of Donaueschingen. The city had been heavily bombed and this would have had an impact to his very early formative years as well as how those around…
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Basquiat: Liberator of both Word and Image
Before he was Jean-Michel Basquiat, the wild child prince of the 1980s art world, Basquiat was working with fellow street artist Al Diaz under the pseudonym SAMO, short for “Same Old Shit,” up until 1979. The duo spray painted barbed, deeply meaningful aphorisms across Lower Manhattan (the entirety of which have been photographed by Henry Flynt), such as “SAMO as an end to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy,” “SAMO as an escape clause” and countless others. Basquiat himself was practicing both symbolic and literal escapism, he himself left home before graduating high school. Like many artists, stringing a few chosen letters together in order to craft an anonymous…
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