Die Welt – The Artist Editions

I like to admit it when I’m late to the game and in this case it’s by a few years. I was over at greg.org recently and stumbled over the post about the Elsworth Kelly issue of Die Welt, in which every illustration in the newspaper is a Kelly image. After kicking around on Die Welts website I realized that there are probably electronic back issues available of the paper.

A few moments later I discovered that George Baselitz had also done an issue for them as well.

So color me impressed. Pretty interesting take on the use of “High Art” in the arena that is usually looking for context specific visual documents, and in its place we get Kelly and Baselitz. I never really thought that a Kelly artwork would be a good for the news about soccer. I guess you learn something everyday.

You can download a PDF version of these issues: Kelly | Baselitz