
Revolte, 1000 x Keuschheit goldene Diamantin die Totalvölkische
2007
A large-scale oil painting by Jonathan Meese, this work exemplifies the German artist's characteristically frenetic and raw visual language, layering bold gestural marks, text, and symbolic imagery across the canvas. The work's sprawling title invokes themes of revolt, chastity, and a provocative quasi-mythological totalizing force, reflecting Meese's obsessive engagement with power, fantasy, and the theatrics of dictatorship as artistic performance. Dense and confrontational, the painting operates as both a manifesto and a carnival, collapsing high and low cultural references into an explosive, almost ritualistic pictorial field.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 9, 2018
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