Arnulf Rainer

Arnulf Rainer was born in 1929 in Austria he becomes a painter famous at the world level for his abstract informal art. Rainer was triumphantly recognized on 1993 of the Museum Arnulf Raine in New York

We can speak about Rainer as a user of the photography as the material. He is more recognized for his works today in which he uses mixed techniques: leaving pre-existent images, such as photos, he recovers them of paint, so modifying the meaning of the initial image.

This pictorial process which Arnulf Rainer likes particularly consists in using mostly photography and reproductions of works of the other artists, which he recovers of " surillustrations " either " surpeintures " which obviously change the sense it or reveal in them a new, unexpected sense. For some years, the painter applies this process to diverse illustrations.

The artist overloads and blurs deliberately the photos of death masks of big men. Frédéric le Grand, Canova, Beethoven, Nietzsche), while maintaining their names in the titles of these works. The directory of the expressionism abstracts - projections of paint(painting), raturages, scratches …

Is so put in the service of an art by no means abstract and which has hardly affinity with the Austrian or German expressionism to which we assimilate him too often. Rather it would be necessary to speak about an art of the disfigurement.

It is so very known for its collection of naive art collected in a time(period) when this art interested only doctors psychiatrists.