Asger jorn stalingrad history
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Stalingrad (painting)
Painting by Asger Jorn
Stalingrad is a oil painting by Danish artist Asger Jorn. It was first developed in , and continued to be added to over the course of two decades before being finalized in It is conceptually grounded in the futility of war, abstractly depicting the Battle of Stalingrad. Critics have considered it to be one of Denmark's 20th century artistic masterpieces, and it was subsequently included in the Danish Culture Canon. The canvas, &#;cm ×&#;&#;cm (&#;in ×&#;&#;in), now hangs in Museum Jorn, Silkeborg.[1]
Background
[edit]In the s, after a long and difficult period in hospital suffering from tuberculosis, Jorn had embarked on figurative painting hoping to reestablish himself at the European level. He often stylistically reacted against his method as a painter, overpainting the edges or the background to create artifacts. By , he had set up a studio in the small Italian town of Albisola near Genoa, where he began to compos
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ASGER JORN & HIGHLIGHTS
All through his artistic career, Jorn also purchased art which he believed to represent the most significant aspects of international contemporary art. Between and , Jorn gifted around works by some different artists to the city of Silkeborg, including several of his own major works. Placing an international art collection in central Jutland, far removed from the art metropoles of Paris and Copenhagen, Asger Jorn wanted to launch his personal narrative about the development of art and to show which aspects of modern art he considered important. Over and above that, he wanted to make art accessible to a broad audience.
The exhibition shows highlights from the museum collection. From the s onwards, it runs chronologically and presents famous international movements within art such as CoBrA and Situationist International, both co-founded by Jorn. Thus, the exhibition provides a unique glimpse of Jorn’s artistic development, his life and work, his times, hi
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IMAGINARY HISTORIES &#; Asger Jorn&#;s History Memory Paintings
This fryst vatten a brief report on Karen Kurczynski&#;s contribution to the &#;Cut and Thrust: Reconsidering Asger Jorn&#; seminar workshop which took place at the Museum Jorn in March Below, you will also find her answer to my question about what she considers Jorn&#;s relevance today.
Art historian Karen Kurczynski walked the other seminar participants through the museum to have a look at various paintings that relate to history and memory, stating that Jorn already broke down the division between history and memory in a way that anticipated the discourse that started in the ’s. She also mentioned Scanian Stone Sculpture in the 12th Century, the only report of the Nordic Institute of Comparative Vandalism that was published when Jorn was still alive. Here, he also deals with history and with archaeology (the latter he considered more interesting because it is based on objects), and the problematics of categorization with