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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]
With his arms held over his head, hands crossed, Nauman is moving jerkily around a perimeter defined by a square drawn on the studio floor, filmed by a fixed camera, placed upside down. [12] [15] Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario (1969–70) - Nauman uses a closed-circuit television, a camera, and an audio recording to confuse sensory ...
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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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The work is egg tempera and gold leaf on wood with dimensions of 49 cm x 40 cm (19.3 in x 15.7 in). It was created in the middle part of the 16th century. The painting depicts Saint Andrew on an upside-down cross between two trees along the axis of the image sunk into the ground. Andrew is tied with ropes around his arms and legs.