Anselm Kiefer's Sunflower Image Research

Anselm Kiefer(1945-1945)was one of the greatest contemporary artists in Germany,and his work had a great influence on the application of the contemporary painting language.The profound cultural cultivation and the obscurity of artistic language make Kiefer's works difficult to be easily understood.The complex images in his works are enough to form a set of his personal "image blog".Without analyzing the historical and cultural context behind these images,the profound meaning contained in Kiefer's works cannot be understood.The sunflower image is a crucial artistic carrier and node in Kiefer's artistic career,and a symbol of Kiefer's breakthrough and success in the 1990s,announcing the break of one period and the beginning of another in his artistic creation.Kiefer presents the sunflower in different materials and faces,placing it in different situations,thus bearing rich symbolic significance.In the traditional sense,Kjefer's sunflowers have already gone beyond the ordinary forms of expression and become an image with speculative and historical marks.In a sense,Kiefer expressed his different ideas through the medium of sunflower.Both in terms of the duration of the image and the breadth of the subject involved,it is a carrier worthy of study.Based on the complexity of Anselm Kiefer's works,this article will use the sociology and the image study research technique,Kiefer image selected volunteers in a profound cultural connotation and rich symbolic image,sunflower,typical analysis as the theme,multiple perspectives and multiple levels from the dimension of time,space,etc to interpret Kiefer sunflower image.To Kiefer creative thinking for the paper to explore the foothold,from artists and art individual time and context,analyzes its sunflower image generation and development,try to picture in stripping process,the situation of the life and society further analysis Kiefer into deep thinking,discuss Kiefer will sunflower into the history of world war ii,culture and mysticism elements in the context of meaning.The form of sunflower and the symbolic essence hidden in sunflower,as the objective object depicted in Kiefer's works,are analyzed concretely.