My Intentions; Midgard and other works

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most highly recognizable figures of the neo expressionist movement of the twentieth century. His body of work is extremely diverse in it's utilization of various materials ranging from  paint and raw lead, to acres of land. While his entire body of work to date is extremely compelling, for the purposes of this research assignment, I will focus on his landscape paintings and mixed media works of the 1970's and 1980's.

        Seraphim

         1983-84

•  I am interested in elucidating the idea that Kiefer is eschewing a position in the contemporary art worlds tendency to make commodity out of nature and thus creating allegorical re-contexualizations of classical concerns involving Landscape. 

                  Markische  Heide

                   1974