Anselm Kiefer

the many theories, most thinkers manage to agree on one thing; there is some superior being responsible for Creation. I will explore the philosophies presented by St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine and St. Anselm in an attempt to discover which, if any, has uncovered the unquestionable truth. Anselm, Aquinas and Augustine each exhibited a love of knowledge and shared strong ties to religion, namely Christianity. Apart from of their personal religious beliefs they also agree on several basic…

Anselm Kiefer gave a double title High Priestess and Zweistromland ( 1985-1989, 500 x 800 x 100 cm, about 200 books of lead, on steel shelves, with glass and copper) to his monumental archive installation exhibited for the first time in 1989 at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery at the Riverside Studios in London . The installation consists of two large 13 foot high bookcases positioned at such an angle that the bookcases themselves represent pages of an open book. The bookcases are filled with over…

of deciding where to put the wax crayon and then the placement and reduction of the graphite are adamant throughout the canvas. Twombly is literally showing the viewer his mistakes, decisions, and actions he must take to create Untitled (Bolsena). Anselm Kiefer’s, Breaking of the Vessels, is a huge bookshelf full of books that have been shattered that project sheets of lead that have been oxidized onto the floor around. The whole mass of the weight pulls the material down. This introduces a…