Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georg-baselitz-699" aria-label="More by Georg Baselitz" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Georg Baselitz</a>
Folkdance Melancholia
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
abstraction
dance
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
Germanic folklore
gestural
leisure and pastimes
literature and fiction
man-made
music and entertainment
tales, legends and traditional
painting oil paint canvas
20 September 2014 – 18 January 2015
2015-01-18
20 September 2014 – 11 January 2015
2015-01-11
2014-09-20
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery (Leicester, UK)
http://www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk
2014-09-20
ARTIST ROOMS 2014: Georg Baselitz
Loan-out
25 April 2015 – 10 January 2016
2016-01-10
25 April 2015 – 10 January 2016
2016-01-10
2015-04-25
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2015-04-25
Georg Baselitz
Collection based display
Folkdance Melancholia
support: 2504 × 2510 × 58 mm
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>This is one of a series of paintings that Baselitz painted in the first half of 1989, with the generic title of ‘Streubilder’ (or ‘Scatter Paintings’) or ‘Ciao America’. ‘Scatter Paintings’ describes the lack of a compositional focus in works like ‘Volkstanz Marode’. Its ‘pattern’ of tiles and heads is reminiscent of the all-over quality of American Abstract Expressionism, but the primitivist style and reference to folkdance are unapologetically European. Baselitz was at the forefront of European Neo-Expressionist painting from the 1960s onwards, which enjoyed massive popularity in the 1980s, and caused some to see European art eclipsing American art at the time. Ciao America!</p>

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abstraction dance emotions, concepts and ideas figure formal qualities from recognisable sources Germanic folklore gestural leisure and pastimes literature and fiction man-made music and entertainment tales, legends and traditional