In his early years Rainer was influenced by surrealism, his work then evolved towards Destruction of Forms, with blackenings, overpaintings, and maskings of illustrations and photographs dominating his later work.
These pictures represent his destruction of forms work and this is made very obvious through the art. The colours he uses are mainly dull, like black white and greys, but he seems to add a slight bit of colour, although usually mainly red and yellow.
He seems to distort the face slightly as well. The impression i get from his work is not an alter ego, but some kind of anger, as if he is letting the anger out on his paintings. This makes me wonder if these people mean something to him, maybe they are people he doesnt like or people that have done wrong, or just symbols of these people. Also from looking at his work, it seems that he only did these paintings of men, and it makes me wonder what this means, if it is something he did on purpose.
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