Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor.  His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. I chose to analyse one of his paintings called 'winter landscape' because, I love how you can see where the colour has bled into the water and created stains in the snow and in the sky. The mood of this painting seems almost dark and the woman is the sky looks like she has a bloody neck which has fallen onto the icy white snow. The brush strokes used in this painting are simple and has been used to create washes of colour in the background. I personally prefer his watercolour paintings than I do his sculptures because they have a deeper narrative.