Gottfried Helnwein's Epiphany (Adoration of the Magi) is a strange takeoff on a traditional New Testament theme in art. The work depicts a Madonnalike mother displaying her baby to attentive Nazi officers, Painted in hyperrealist grisaille with chiaroscuro effects, the work resembles an old documentary photograph made huge. The eerie, sinister overtones are unmistakable. Who is this mother? What do these officers want with her and her child? What kind of official paper might the officer on the left hold in his hand and what might be its result? Helnwein, characteristically, presents us with an ambiguous, haunting image and leaves us to wonder about its meaning...
With its huge size, hyperrealist style, and disturbing content, this unsettling work bestows a psychological anxiety accompanied by a strong magnetic pull. Confronting it, we tend to stare-entranced by both its beauty and its seductive, malevolent overtones... ...

Adoration of the Magi (1496) by Filippino Lippi - Epiphany (Adoration of the Magi) 1996 by Gottfried Helnwein.
If you noticed the completion dates, you would be correct to count 500 years difference between them. Considering Helnwein body of work, I don't think his 1996 completion date is entirely coincidental. Is there a meaning behind the date? Probably, but you will have to ask him. On the other hand, there were quite a few "Adoration of Magi" paintings and I am just putting too much thought into the two I found the most interesting. But then again, art is very subjective and I have chosen to give meaning to these two works of art and hence find the 500 years relevant. ...

{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 ...

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 ...

Répondre en citant j'suis pas vraiment un Fan d'art visuel.J'prétend même pas comprendre le symbolisme ou tout simplement m'y intéressé.Mais lui...lui j'doit avouer qu'il a vraiment attiré mon attention.J'aime particulièrement ses Aquarelles et les set de photos Angel Sleeping, Apokalypse/Limbo et,bien sûr, les photographies de Rammstein. ...

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. ...