A Nose Adjustment (Face Farce) 1971Arnulf Rainer

Arnulf Rainer was an Austrian painter renowned by his informal abstract art style. By using simple paint line strokes, Rainer makes a destruction of form painting style of art. The art piece I chose is “A Nose Adjustment (Face Farce)” by Arnulf Rainer created in 1971. In this art piece Rainer uses a black and white photograph in which he paints over with oil pastels giving the image a warped deform feel also creating an abstract feel to the art piece. With the photograph being black and white, any color that Rainer adds to it through paints tends to pop out and make the viewer focus more on what was painted and warp the image. This can be seen in A Nose Adjustment (Face Farce), Rainer purposely paints over the guys nose making it look bigger than what it really is. At first look the man’s face seems like it has been through a bad accident and it didn’t turn out well for him, but if you take a closer look to the man’s face you can see that his face is perfectly fine and with no deformities. Due to the lines painted by Rainer your mind makes up a completely different image than what it really is. Through simple strokes Rainer took one image and basically made it into two depending how well you focus one or the other.