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This artist has mastered the art of upside-down painting.
It hung upside down at MOMA for 47 days in 1961. [8] [9] Georgia O'Keeffe's The Lawrence Tree (1929) depicts a tree from its foot. It hung up upside down in 1931 and between 1979 and 1989. Her Oriental Poppies hung upside down for 30 years at the Weisman Art Museum of the University of Minnesota. [8] Long Grass With Butterflies, 1890
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]
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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[8] [c] The finished New York City has a denser group of lines at the top of the painting, which were said to represent the sky, while New York City I was displayed with those lines at the bottom. [8] A picture of the painting in the artist's studio also showed the painting oriented with the denser lines at the top.
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