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The Artist Project: Dana Schutz

Artist Dana Schutz reflects on Balthus's The Mountain in this episode of The Artist Project.
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.

"Sometimes you can actually get more from the paintings that bother you."

Artist Dana Schutz reflects on Balthus's "The Mountain" 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
Dana Schutz, born in 1976, is an American painter.

Dana Schutz (American, born Livonia, Michigan, 1976)

Presentation, 2005

Oil on canvas; 10 × 14 ft. (304.8 × 426.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, Fractional and promised gift of Michael and Judy Ovitz (245.2005). Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York © 2015 Dana Schutz


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The Mountain, Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski)  French, Oil on canvas
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski)
1936–37