In 1969 Georg Baselitz began painting upside down. It was a strange thing to do. And definitely gimmicky. What it achieved, however, was to give him an unmissable pictorial identity. In the busily stacked shelves of art, he stood out. He was the guy who painted upside down. At the time, and whenever his rationale … Continue reading Why I was wrong about Georg Baselitz and his upside-down paintings