Understanding Beuys And Conceptual Art

R.Mutt / Duchamp “Fountain” 1917

Picasso 1942

Joseph Beuys

1921-1986

The Legend of Beuys

Wolf pack

Felt suit

piano

Plight (piano room)

hearth

Auchswitz demonstration

Nuremburg action

Pipes (environment)

Abandoned sleep of all my loves

Pain room

7000 oaks

PerformanceHow to Explain (Modern Painting) to a Dead Hare

“Even in death a hare has more sensitivity and

instinctive understanding than some men with their

stubborn rationality."

Beuys in America

multiples Act as reminders

Multiples

“Energy Plan for the

Western Man”

Creativity = Capital

Art as teaching, not teaching art

Art as Teaching, Not Teaching Art

Joseph Beuys

believed passionately that art should

change the way people think.

Open admittance policy

Imagination

Inspiration

Intuition

We Must Work to Develop:

Intuition

“Intuition”

Piero Manzoni

PerformanceHow to Explain (Modern Painting)

to a Dead Hare

“Even in death a hare has more sensitivity and instinctive

understanding than some men with their stubborn rationality."

Joseph Kosuth

Jenny Holzer

Ofilki

Food For ThoughtThe recent “Food for Thought” exhibition featured another “Cooking Performance” by PONZ. In his opinion, we are more likely to positively influence each other one on one than through any political movement. With that in mind, PONZ views the dinner table as one of the best vehicles for change available to us.

To Influence the Enlightened

Participation in conversation was rewarded with a multi-course Italian meal. As the conversation spread, so did the food.

The topics of conversation ranged from Poetry and Art, to Physics, Mathematics and Current Events.

“Garlic Bulb”

“Garlic Bulb”

“Garlic Plug”

Boondocked

School Yard

(Inside Telescope)

Diagramof

Life

A Festa PONZ

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Survival Kit

The Bridge

The Path