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"Helnwein's subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead creates the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within."
Robert Flynn Johnson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
Jean Cocteau
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"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Picasso
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"The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That is who we are."
Marilyn Manson (about his collaboration with Helnwein)


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		01. July 2003 www.pileup.com GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN, CHILDREN Trevor Brown, Gottfried Helnwein While Brown shares many interests with the surrealist Hans Bellmer (dolls, lolitas and bondage), the only other analogies within the world of contemporary art can be found in the early watercolours portraying bandaged children by Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein and in the freak children sculptures by the Chapman brothers, besides the few artists (including Damien Hirst and Mark Ryden) that Brown declared to esteem. (excerpt)


		GOTTFRIED HELNWEIN - THE CHILD "Helnwein's subject matter is the human condition. The metaphor for his art is dominated by the image of the child, but not the carefree innocent child of popular imagination. Helnwein instead creates the profoundly disturbing yet compellingly provocative image of the wounded child. The child scarred physically and the child scarred emotionally from within." Robert Flynn Johnson, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco . "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot, which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie." Jean Cocteau . "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Picasso . "The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive. That is who we are." Marilyn Manson (about his collaboration with Helnwein) http://www.gottfried-helnwein-child.com/


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