Date: 1971
Title: A Nose Adjustment
This image by Arnulf Rainer has a man making a weird face and outlined with another face painted over it with a side view of a face with a bigger nose. From the title it seems to me that for one he is trying to make the nose a lot bigger than the image displays the man's nose. Most of his work shows self-portraits of people with paint splashed over them to either emphasize the person with distorted and bigger noses or hair, moles, and even resemblance of blood. I enjoy his work in a way that they are mostly black and white, also they are not your average self-portraits and his subjects all have funny looks on their face. Also some of his work seems a little demonic or evil in a way as i see it but that could just be me.
I agree there is something a little evil about this work - mostly I think it is an interesting thing how some simple lines over a face - gestures of another thing - can lead to that feeling. Like scratching a face is so bad!
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Something evil, very demonic. It makes me scared. As if those faces are the faces you see in childhood nightmares. You are correct though on your opinion about the black and white, it works super well. I definitely wouldn't want to see one of his demonic creations in a dark alley at night! BOOGY WOOGY!
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