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Showing posts with label Art Artists Beuys Joseph. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

ArtLex on the Fluxus Movement

ArtLex on the Fluxus Movementhttp://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/fluxus.html

Fluxus - An art movement begun in 1961/1962, which flourished throughout the 1960s, and into the 1970s. Characterized by a strongly Dadaist attitude, Fluxus promoted artistic experimentation mixed with social and political activism, an often celebrated anarchistic change. Although Germany was its principal location, Fluxus was an international avant-gardemovement active in major Dutch, English, French, Swedish, and American cities. Its participants were a divergent group of individualists whose most common theme was their delight inspontaneity and humor. 


Fluxus members avoided any limiting art theories, and spurned pure aesthetic objectives, producing such mixed-media works as found poems, mail art, silent orchestras, and collages of such readily available materials as scavanged posters, newspapers, and other ephemera. Their activities resulted in many events or situations, often called "Aktions" works challenging definitions of art as focused on objects -- performances, guerilla or street theater, concerts of electronic music many of them similar to what in America were known as Happenings.


In Latin and other languages, "Fluxus" literally means "flow" and "change." Similarly, the related English word "flux" is used variously to mean "a state of continuous change," "a fusion," and "a gushing of fluid from a body."... http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/fluxus.html


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see thumbnail to rightJoseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986), Infiltration homogen für Konzertflügel (Homogeneous Infiltration for Piano), 1966, piano covered with felt and leather, 100 x 152 x 240 cm, Georges Pompidou Center, Paris... 

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Joseph Beuys Biography

Joseph Beuys Biography:

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  • { J o s e p h B e u y s B i o g . | M i n i B i o g . | G a l l e r y }

    Joseph Beuysb. 1921, Krefeld, Germany; d. 1986, Düsseldorf

    Joseph Beuys was born May 12, 1921, in Krefeld, Germany

    During his school years in Kleve, Beuys was exposed to the work of Achilles Moortgat, whose studio he often visited, and was inspired by the sculptures of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Beuys began to study medicine in 1940, but his studies were interrupted when he joined the army and served as a fighter pilot. 

    During a mission in 1943, he was badly injured when his plane crashed in a desolate region of south Russia. This experience would resonate in all of his later work...