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Nora Beatriz Rivera
Ryan Gallagher
English 12 CP, Period 6
16 March, 2009

Biography of Norbert Bisky

Norbert Bisky was born in the year of 1970 in Leipzig, Germany. (Allsop “Boy will be Boys”) Celebrating the Berlin wall 30th anniversary; being broken down left with enduring impressions of Socialist propaganda. (Bernard “Norbert Bisky”) Bisky from that moment on that he should be an artist, for that moment he believes he doesn’t want to do that for all of his life. (Bernard “Norbert Bisky”) Bisky went on a field trip to Madrid, Spain from his art classes. From then on he has seen Germany from a different view. He seen things that he hasn’t been able to see. (Bernard “Norbert Bisky”) He now knows more stereotypically things about Germany that he had never heard from. (Bernard “Norbert Bisky”) Ironically all of his painting has been a reflection of his childhood, in how socialist propaganda worked. All of his models are called David, since his art school he was only been able to work one model and from then on Bisky can just draw that model and make new things off that. (Blomberg “Rückzug der Ikonen.”) In truth to get different facial ideas Bisky work on real models and he works on ten painting or so he usually get back to them in a later time, but doing ten at a time just to keep himself busy. Bisky can work for a long time on a painting and still feel it is never finished. (Wright 77) He actually enjoys a painting when it is not finished. (Wright 77) He thinks it has more of a deeper meaning then the ones that are actually done. (Wiensoki “Im Wohnmobil zum Stadion.”) Bisky can also work for a painting for a long time and just throw it out without and regrets. (Comis “Tema Celeste”) The beginning of the month he might love, but by the end he just hates it. (Comis “Tema Celeste”) He doesn’t care what the public thinks. (Desert “The Case Norbert Bisky.”) He likes the attention of that his artwork was a controversy on Germany. (Henry “Norbert Bisky of Leo Koenig.”) He even stated that it is quite enjoy hearing what the people say. (Desert “The Case Norbert Bisky.”)Most of his artwork shows blonde hair and blue eye males. Bisky can draw girls, though he thinks that they look like men. The controversy of his painting is that most people think that he is drawing the Aryan race and he is being called a Nazi, since he is from Germany so many people have been complaining. (Vega “Un pasado convulso, un presente arrebatador.”) Other people think that he is drawing more of Stalin era then Germany’s Nazi era. (Peterson “Norbert Bisky of Leo Koenig.”) He has also pictures of men having sex with other men. He just makes fun of anything and really doesn’t care. Often times Bisky get to have an offer to drawn someone and he does but usually doesn’t finish within that time he usually finishes two to three years later. Being thirty-three years old, Bisky is making his name for himself in Europe. Not in the U.S. as much. (Peterson “Norbert Bisky of Leo Koenig.”)
His painting represents Freedom and how it can be express in art form. He shows anything to homosexual to Nazism in his paintings. He has the ability to make people question about, it exactly what he wants even though he considers every painting he has to be unfinished. To one exhibit he have has painting “David” next year “David might be change even more then what the original had. “I really believe in freedom.”(Wright 81)
The painting Aquageddon by Norbert Bisky, send a powerful picture of freedom. There are fourteen people in this painting. It shows one person being crucified which shows the symbol of religion but in the far corner there is someone hanged. What is Bisky trying to say? Free to draw anything, Bisky holds the power to make images that contradict one another. There is a gay couple in the left corner of the picture which is really ironic because Catholics do not approve of homosexual yet; it is shown. The man being stabbed by the telephone pole is holding on; notice how the telephone pole is shape into a cross. Which again shows the ability to show anything on the canvas. There is a girl in the sky that has her arms and legs spread open. It seems that she is free falling or maybe an angel searching for hope. Below the free falling girl, there is a man, but his face is hidden within a bush or a tree, it looks like a bush with socks coming out. The man might be dead and didn't show how his face got torn off. In the middle of the page there are two women standing there blowing into air looks like trying to send a message for help in the hopeless situation they are in.
The man in the sky looks like he may have gotten the signal. The odd thing about the man in the sky is that he is wearing a suit, and everyone the painting is half naked or in their bathing suits. This man is looking at the two girls blowing the message. Below him there is a ruined house, it looks like the house is taking a boy and its like he is in a lot of pain, his leg is up in the air and his face is in agony. There is another boy holding on to his arms trying to get him out.
Underneath the boy that is trying to help there is red water. The red water can be seen as the boy’s blood. Even though it’s hopeless to help the boy that is trapped, the boy is trying his best to get him out. Below the two boys, there is wolf and a bloody head in the water. That bloody head may belong to boy with the bushes and socks. That bloody head is his face torn off. Bisky didn't want to draw the detail of his face being off but he drew parts of it on the water.
The wolf on the right bottom seems misplaced. Apparently it is howling, but there is no moon in this painting there is just dark blue sky. In the middle there’s a bright blue sky. Everything around the wolf is dying or trying to survive, the wolf here is perfectly standing, howling. But the man next to the wolf is the best man in this painting. He has a lot more to talk about. He is the only one with a lot of details, bigger image of any of the boys around here and different just like the suit man. The boy is looking at far distance hold his arm that is somehow injured.
The man’s face shows despite what is happening around him. He's eye are searching for it. His arm may be unusable but that doesn't stop him from looking for Freedom. Everything in the background is horrible. His face is with no emotion just looking the in the distance. Thinking is this going to get any better. Now or later?
The colors of this painting are dark there is no one smiling or having a good time. This picture shows violence, blood, sex, pain, hope, and death. This is all going on at once. But isn't that this life works? Everything going all at once? The way Norbert Bisky shows it was really interesting also the way he painted the image. He uses a lot of white paint there are parts of this panting that are solid white. Almost all of his artwork there is white there.
It makes his painting more light in a weird way. Since this painting is a depression picture. The blue stuff that is in the bottom of the picture is water. A house being destroyed by the blue thing which in this case it’s safe to say its water. The dirty old mattress in the water is worn out seems like it came out of the house in the top left corner. Where the man hung himself. The house seems like it is stained with blood, the roof is just covered with blood. The man that is in the cross is the cause for the blood. Do not understand how that man on the cross isn’t falling down. It does seem that he is nailed down but his feet are just dangling there. The setting seems like it's been taken during the summer time, since most people in their bathing suits. Something must have happened to cause this horrible scenery. The water fountain in the middle must had an expulsion that had this huge water killing people. This flood that is so massive that people are helping each other, being stabbed by a pole, got his face torn off, having sex, hung himself, calling out cries, looking at a distance.