Arnold Bocklin

Arnold Böcklin Arnold Böcklin stands out among contemporary artists because he never felt at ease with the designation. Böcklin submerged himself in the history of painting from the Reformation onward, drawn to mythic imagery and all that was impactful and extravagant, while other artists of his era tinkered with ever more noticeable forms of abstract concepts and aesthetic experiments, turning their backs on the canonical and biographical subject-matter of the past. The resulting corpus of art fuses a huge spectrum of painting styles with what we would term kitsch subject eclecticism. His artwork undoubtedly exhibited the broad, widespread appeal that...
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