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...first systematic museum show of this material in America. Art Historian Jack Cowart, who assembled it, wisely refrained from trying to cover everyone. Instead, he chose five "exemplary" figures, the most influential and (although his catalogue essay waffles on this point) the aesthetically superior ones: Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Markus Lüpertz and A.R. Penck...
...Baselitz's art is the least "real" of the five: thick, ropy painting that takes a stand among images of the physical world but ends up looking quite unconcerned with them. He paints bathers, bottles or trees upside down, without offering a moment's access of feeling to this body, this vessel, this plant. His art is all generalization. Baselitz, 45, calls his subjects motifs, and that is what a motif is-a repeatable module on which an act of painting can be displayed. You take a motif and rough it up; then you take another motif...