These are three artists who I would call my favourites.
Anselm Kiefer
Palmsonntag 2006
Mixed media Dimensions variable © the artist
Photo: Stephen White Courtesy Jay Jopling/ White Cube (London)
Grande Anthropophagie bleue
Hommage à Tennessee Williams, 1960
(Large blue anthropophagy, Homage to Tennessee Williams)
Grande bataille [Great battle]
Pure pigment and synthetic resin
on paper marouflaged to canvas -276 x 418 cm
Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne Collection
© Adagp, Paris 2007
The Rothko Room, Tate Modern
Tate © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/DACS 2006
"When I say that my paintings are Western, what I mean is that they seek the concretization of no state that is without the limits of western reason, no esoteric, extra-sensory or divine attributes to be achieved by prayer & terror.Those who can claim that these [limits] are exceeded are exhibiting self-imposed limitations as to the tensile limits of the imagination within those limits. In other words, that there is no yearning in these paintings for Paradise, or divination.On the contrary they are deeply involved in the possibility of ordinary humanity." -Mark Rothko