Albert Oehlen ——Spiegelbilder (Mirror painting)

This book tells Albert’s drawing style, genre, and the unique technique he used to present his paintings in this book. His usual technique of painting is’ bad painting ‘, which consciously destroys the existing schools, techniques and vocabulary in the history of modern painting. In this book, he paints the conscious destruction by adding’ Mirror ‘concept. He is always out of the ordinary card, for example, he let the harpist musician to unplug the harp strings, making his paintings very attractive. The mirrors in these paintings give these paintings a sense of space, which makes the space in his paintings very confused. He consciously presented the scene as a two-dimensional scene in the mirror, while the three-dimensional world outside the mirror allowed the audience to see different scenes when viewing the paintings at different heights. He combines the abstract and the realism fully, letting the audience feel the attraction of painting and at the same time he has attacked the history of modern painting.