"He's painting about the struggle of being human."
Artist Eric Fischl reflects on Max Beckmann's "Beginning" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.
About the Artist
Eric Fischl, born in 1948, is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
The Artist Project: Eric Fischl
Artist Eric Fischl reflects on Max Beckmann's Beginning in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.
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Max Beckmann
1946–49