Asger Jorn: Stalingrad
This large painting is considered the principal work of the Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973), and he worked on it for 15 years. It's impressive, but not one of my favorite paintings. Actually, I have to admit that I'm not an admirer of this rather famous Danish artist. Some - and not only Danes still - see him as a "genius", but if that's the case then I fail to see it.
However, I'm not blind to the fact that he may be a much better artist than I think he was. After all he did make an impact on art critics and fellow artists. He even had his own museum in the Danish city of Silkeborg where he and his five siblings were raised by their mother after the death of their father.
Asger Jorn with Pablo Picasso
However, right now there is a lot of discussions about one of his works, namely, "Den foruroligende ælling" ("The Worrying Duckling" from 1959) which is a true "Re-Creation of Art" as he made it by painting an extremely ugly duckling on another artist's painting which he had bought in a second-hand shop. Who that artist was nobody seems to know - or care about - and that means that nobody knows how that man or woman would have felt about his or her work being "re-created". Was he/she proud of the painting and loved it as it was before Jorn laid his hand on it? If so what felt he/she at seeing the ugly Jorn duckling covering his/her artwork???? Would he or she have felt like taking him to court over his act of sacrilege or didn't he/she care?????
"The Worrying Duckling" by Asger Jorn (and someone else ...)
From what I know of these second hand artworks they are not considered art by art critics, but somehow this special, not highly estimated, painting by an seemingly unknown artist attained status by the ugly duckling that was painted on it. The art critics didn't see it as Jorn's attempt to ruin an artwork, but to "better it" and turning it into art. However, recently another - and modern, Danish artist, Ibi-Pippi Orup Hedegaard, did to Jorn's work what he had done to the unknown artist's painting, namely re-created it once more. This time Hell broke lose over something that now was seen as sacrilege, vandalism or a crime to ruin a famous piece of art.
Ibi-Pippi Orup Hedegaard
Now the question is, whether it's fair or not to sentence Ibi-Pippi to pay a fine of almost 2 million in Danish kroner (i.e. circa $292.256,64) for doing what Asger Jorn did? The Jorn painting of the duckling may be ruined for good, but so was the painting he used as a canvas ....
https://www.tv2ostjylland.dk/silkeborg/efter-jorn-haervaerk-nu-rejses-erstatningskrav-mod-ibi-pippi
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