![]() One is bright pink, the other neatly painted in blocks of green, yellow, blue and orange. – which "consists of two configurations of rumpled, ribbon-like loops rising some 20 feet high. of Franz West's artwork which contained his latest artwork designed specifically for the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Igo and the Id. The Baltimore Museum of Art with help from former Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Darsie Alexander, hosted the very first "comprehensive survey" to ever been done in the U.S. ![]() With their monochrome colors and irregular patchwork surfaces, these works were also meant for sitting and lying. In the late 1990s, West turned to large-scale lacquered aluminum pieces, the first (and several after) inspired by the forms of Viennese sausages, as well as the shapes of the Adaptives. He started to produce paintings, but then turned to collages, sculptures, portable sculptures called "Adaptives" or "Fitting Pieces", environments and furniture – "welded metal chairs and divans, some minimally padded and upholstered in raw linen." For his early sculptures, West often covered ordinary objects-bottles, machine parts, pieces of furniture and other, unidentifiable things-with gauze and plaster, producing "lumpy, grungy, dirty-white objects". West's artwork is typically made out of plaster, papier-mâché, wire, polyester, aluminium and other, ordinary materials. Over the last 20 years he had a regular presence in big expositions like Documenta and the Venice Biennale. His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades. West began making drawings around 1970 before moving on to painted collages incorporating magazine images that showed the influence of Pop Art. West did not begin to study art seriously until he was 26, when, between 19, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Bruno Gironcoli. His father was a coal dealer, his mother a dentist who took her son with her on art-viewing trips to Italy.
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