[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG)./internal/media/dispatcher/146176/fullHeadca 195446 × 46 cm
Oil on canvas1975 Artothek des Bundes, Dauerleihgabe im Belvedere, WienLg 7211During several visits to Paris, Maria Lassnig explored Surrealism and non-figurative painting. In view of the danger of “degenerating into sterile abstraction,” as she put it, however, on her return to Vienna in 1954 she sought a middle way between figuration and abstraction. Dispensing with physiognomic details such as nose, eyes, and mouth, in this painting she deconstructs a head into planar components—“cheek plates, forehead plates, neck cylinders.” Despite what appears at first sight to be a formal abstraction, the way of focusing and reduction are clear references to Lassnig’s “body awareness painting.” Painting101968699211Upper Belvederehttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-9211/manifest