|| 析 || 手持红旗 | 乔治·巴塞利兹
《手持红旗》（1965年）是乔治·巴塞利兹《英雄》（Heroes）系列的其中一幅，这幅画作巩固了他作为战后最具争议的声音之一的声名。《手持红旗》创作于1965年至1966年间，描绘的是“英雄式”的士兵。士兵头颅短小，穿着破烂的制服，看起来备受羞辱，显得十分难堪，手持一面超大的猩红色旗帜，是重负而不是胜利的能指。画面的右侧，远处可见消退的建筑物轮廓。红色的血迹从人物腿上的伤口上滴坠下来，而那面巨大的旗帜则与红色遥相呼应。“英雄”象征着战后德国遭受严重摧残的幸存者，或当今从冲突地区的灾难和恐怖中返乡的人。
这幅画同样也象征着一个战败国。并非偶然的是，人物的意义深远的姿势是英雄气概的典型表现，让人想起法西斯主义和社会主义现实主义的英雄意象，也许暗示着政治目的和主题的均质化方法，画家本人早年深受东柏林的影响。此外，《手持红旗》中人物的悲剧性和孤独感证明了德国浪漫主义的强大影响。这位迷茫的年轻人特别使人联想到一种浪漫主义现象，从歌德的书信体小说《少年维特的烦恼》到卡斯珀·大卫·弗里德里希的《雾海上的流浪者》。然而，这个人物的糟糕状况，意味着任何浪漫主义对巴塞利兹绘画的曲解。
关于艺术家 乔治·巴塞利兹（Georg Baselitz）生于1938年，德国画家，雕塑家和平面艺术家。20世纪60年代以具象，富有表现力的绘画而闻名。
Mit Roter Fahne (1965) is part of Georg Baselitz’s series Heroes, which cemented his reputation as one of the most provocative voices of the post-war era. Produced between 1965 and 1966,Mit Roter Fahne,depicts a “heroic” soldier. With its diminutive head, tattered uniform, the soldier appears humiliated,almost foolish, carrying an oversized scarlet flag rather as a burden than a signifier of victory. To right of the figure the faded outlines of a building are visible in the distance. Red traces of blood drip from a gash in the figure’s leg, while the monumental flag echoes the red.The ‘Hero’ symbolizes the depleted survivors of devastated post-war Germany, or those returning home from catastrophes and horrors of conflict zones today.
The painting also signifies a defeated nation. It is not coincidental that the monumental pose of the figure,an archetypal expression of heroic masculinity, is reminiscent to both Fascist and Socialist Realist heroic iconography, and perhaps hints to the political aims and homogenized approaches to subject matter, the artist himself was influenced by during his early years in East Berlin. Furthermore, the tragic character and isolation of the figure in Mit Roter Fahne testifies to the strong effect of German Romanticism. The roaming youthful figure is reminiscent of a specifically Romantic phenomenon, from Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrow of Young Werther, to Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. The poor condition of this figure, however, denotes any kind of Romantic reading into Baselitz painting.
About Artist Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) is a German painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. In the 1960s, he became well-known for his figurative, expressive paintings.
