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Most paintings are intended to be hung in a precise orientation, defining an upper part and a lower part. Some paintings are displayed upside down, sometimes by mistake since the image does not represent an easily recognizable oriented subject and lacks a signature or by a deliberate decision of the exhibitor.
This artist has mastered the art of upside-down painting.
Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist.In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings.In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting. [1]
Krita (/ ˈ k r iː t ə / KREE-tə) [6] is a free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation.Originally created for Linux, the software also runs on Windows, macOS, Haiku, Android, and ChromeOS, and features an OpenGL-accelerated canvas, colour management support, an advanced brush engine, non-destructive layers and masks, group-based layer ...
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Le Bateau caused a minor stir when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which housed it, hung the work upside-down for 47 days in 1961 until Genevieve Habert, a stockbroker, noticed the mistake and notified a guard.
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Niccolò Piccinino, in the Palazzo della Signoria in 1428, [16] which depicted him hanging upside down in chains; [17] "depaint[ed]" in April 1430. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Hanging upside down by one foot was a common theme for pitture infamanti of condottieri who switched sides.