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primitivism
primitivism in art, the style of works of self-trained artists who develop their talents in a fanciful and fresh manner, as in the paintings of Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses . The term primitive has also been used to describe the style of early American naive painters such as Edward Hicks ... Read more |
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Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys , 1921-86, German artist, b. Krefeld; one of the most influential of postmodern artists. Drafted into the Luftwaffe during World War II, he was wounded several times and in 1943 was shot down over Crimea. Nearly frozen, he was found by Tatar nomads who saved his life by wrapping him in... Read more |
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folk art
folk art the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. Folk art often involves craft... Read more |
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op art
op art , movement that became prominent in the United States and Europe in the mid-1960s. Deriving from abstract expressionism , op art includes paintings concerned with surface kinetics. Colors were used in creating visual effects, such as afterimages and trompe-l'oeil. Vibrating colors,... Read more |
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conceptual art
conceptual art art movement that began in the 1960s and stresses the artist's concept rather than the art object itself. Growing out of minimalism , conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts and ideas themselves into the primary artistic medium, appealing to the spectator's intellect instead of... Read more |
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. Cultural centre founded by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read in 1947 to encourage new developments in the arts and cater for some of the functions fulfilled by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, organizing exhibitions, lectures, films, concerts,... Read more |
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Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more |
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Dorothea Tanning
Tanning, Dorothea (1910– ). American painter, sculptor, designer, and writer, born at Galesburg, Illinois. Except for two weeks of classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 she was self-taught as an artist. In 1935 she settled in New York, where she worked at odd jobs (including being a... Read more |
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American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters honorary academy of notable American artists, writers, and composers. The National Institute of Arts and Letters, founded in 1898, served as the parent body for the American Academy of Arts and Letters, founded in 1904, until the two were... Read more |
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minimalism
minimalism schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity. Minimalism in the Visual Arts Reacting against the formal excesses and raw emotionalism of abstract expressionism , the practitioners of minimal art (also sometimes... Read more |
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Beuys zone
...Joseph's waistcoat. Beuys obviously didn't like...for Leith Walk and came back breathlessly with four...from leaky dogs. But Beuys was insistent: as a form...historical graffiti on the back of the doors - when Beuys...didn't think much of ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Joseph Beuys, medicine man
...interpretations illustrate how Beuys removed art from the political arena and gave it back to mankind. Perhaps, though...Offay that we can detect Beuys's personal ethos. The Garbo...early stardom to old age. For Beuys, Greta Garbo was the ultimate... |
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Block Beuys
...doubts about its future, Block Beuys was eventually acquired by the...unlikelihood of ever being allowed back to meddle with your own work...been a particular follower of Beuys's work-aesthetically, I...with a conservation crisis. Beuys's work does need some ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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EXHIBIT TRACES JOSEPH BEUYS' DEVELOPMENT
The German artist Joseph Beuys, better known for sculpture...commented that all his art went back to his drawings. The term drawing...curator of a retrospective of Beuys' drawings now at the Museum...Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys," as the first American ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Shining his own light ; Immendorff stands up in the glare of Beuys's...
...to level. A plank runs from Beuys's head to Immendorff's own...female genitalia, morphing back and forth. A drawing suspended...depicts a dog peeing on a rose; Beuys used the rose as a symbol for...distance. In this setting, Beuys cordially leans forward to ... |
 "The Independent on Sunday (London, England)")
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VISUAL ART: Inside the mind of a true German superstar Joseph Beuys: Actions,...
...and Satan. Like these, Beuys suffered a Fall, in his...descent into Hell: brought back to life by the elemental...is in the way it views Beuys's stardom in this light...Volkswagen ambulance. From the back of this, two dozen wooden...its back ... |
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Galleries buy treasure trove of modern art; 230 works by Beuys will tour country
...largest gaps in the collection was Joseph Beuys. "Beuys's impact on contemporary art in Scotland dates back to 1970, and his first exhibition at the...modern art." Mr Calvocoressi said that Beuys's drawings, paintings, installations... |
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Breaking the Beuys Code
...in Berlin and forms part of Beuys's investigations into energy...electric currents. And as for Beuys's sketches of stags, elks...would have been helpful. Beuys's calculated recycling of...its piercing blueness carried back to the painter's studio are... |
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Man of actions; Joseph Beuys, artist, environmentalist, populist and...
...will be a UK first. Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments...24 sledges spilling from the back of a Volkswagen van and has...evidence left over from a life that Beuys's mother tongue describes...began on 12 May 1921, when Beuys was born in Krefeld, a ... |
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Edinburgh Festival: Beuys keeps swinging Main Festival
...This is to highlight the flaws in Beuys' vision. In practical terms there...interesting. It's fine if, like Beuys, you are on back-slapping terms with Andy Warhol...the show is a pretty good idea of Beuys's media lifestyle. The banality... |
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