Another (large) exhibition at the Viennese Leopold Museum displayed a retrospective of the Austrian artist Arik Brauer's work. Brauer is renown in his home country and beyond as a versatile artist and singer/songwriter and is even called a jack-of-all-trades in the exhibition text. He is a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, and even a cursory view of any of his works will confirm his artistic vision. The paintings are fantastic indeed, very colorful on the verge of Kitsch, but deliberately so. The topics, however, are very political (war is a predominant one) and often contain disturbing images. Neverthless, Brauer's intentions are always obvious and honest, his stance likable.
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