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Jonathan Meese — Das Süsseste Mädchen Fräulein Nietzschl' - Dirn ist frei
Jonathan Meese

Das Süsseste Mädchen Fräulein Nietzschl' - Dirn ist frei

A frenetic explosion of paint, text, and collaged ephemera overwhelms the canvas in Jonathan Meese's characteristic maximalist style, blurring the boundaries between painting, writing, and raw gestural mark-making. Frenzied scrawls of text and symbolic imagery collide with bold, almost violent brushwork, channeling Meese's obsessive mythological and philosophical universe. The work pulses with a manic energy that references Nietzschean ideas of liberation and power, filtered through the artist's anarchic, cult-like visual language.

Medium
mixed media on canvas

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Under the Influence

April 11, 2013

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Jonathan Meese, Das Süsseste Mädchen Fräulein Nietzschl' - Dirn ist frei

A frenetic explosion of paint, text, and collaged ephemera overwhelms the canvas in Jonathan Meese's characteristic maximalist style, blurring the boundaries between painting, writing, and raw gestural mark-making. Frenzied scrawls of text and symbolic imagery collide with bold, almost violent brushwork, channeling Meese's obsessive mythological and philosophical universe. The work pulses with a manic energy that references Nietzschean ideas of liberation and power, filtered through the artist's anarchic, cult-like visual language.

Medium
mixed media on canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Mixed Media, Experimental, Canvas, Expressionist, German, Chaotic, Colorful, Figurative, Contemporary

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