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Hans Bellmer — Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer

A hauntingly surrealist hand-coloured gelatin silver print by Hans Bellmer, this work exemplifies the artist's obsessive exploration of the fragmented and reconstituted human form. The delicate application of colour over the photographic surface creates an ethereal yet deeply unsettling tension between beauty and distortion. Bellmer's signature subversion of the body challenges conventional notions of identity, desire, and the uncanny.

Medium
Hand coloured gelatin silver print.

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November 7, 2013

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Hans Bellmer, Hans Bellmer

A hauntingly surrealist hand-coloured gelatin silver print by Hans Bellmer, this work exemplifies the artist's obsessive exploration of the fragmented and reconstituted human form. The delicate application of colour over the photographic surface creates an ethereal yet deeply unsettling tension between beauty and distortion. Bellmer's signature subversion of the body challenges conventional notions of identity, desire, and the uncanny.

Medium
Hand coloured gelatin silver print.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Surrealism, German Artist, Dark And Disturbing, Photography, 20th Century, Hand Coloured, Erotic Art, Male Artist, Avant-Garde, Surrealist Artist, Black and White Photography, Gelatin Silver Print, Monochromatic, Monochromatic With Color Accents, Figurative

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