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Send Forth your Spirit

1974
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Kiefer began exploring the theme of the palette in 1974, explaining that it "represents the idea of the artist connecting heaven and earth. . . . Artists are like shamans, who when they were meditating would sit in a tree in order to suspend themselves between heaven and earth. The palette can transform reality by suggesting new visions. Or you could say that the visionary experience finds its way to the material world through the palette." Here, the palette hovers above the earth and is connected to a heavenly dove, the Christian symbol of the Holy Spirit, by a ray of light inscribed with a German phrase from Catholic mass.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Send Forth your Spirit
  • Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945)
  • Date: 1974
  • Medium: Watercolor, opaque watercolor, brush and black ink, black ballpoint pen, and colored pencil on paper
  • Dimensions: 13 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (34 x 24.1 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.14.6
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Anselm Kiefer
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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