Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) and the Criminal Attitude

Joseph Beuys
Whale Trap 
1961
oil on cardboard
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Angel Whale
1953
drawing
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Two Red Fish
1954
watercolor
Tate Gallery

"I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of crazy creativity.  A creativity without morals fired only by the energy of freedom and the rejection of all codes and laws.  For freedom rejects the dictated roles of the law and the imposed order and for this reason is isolated."

 Joseph Beuys (1978)

Joseph Beuys
Pregnant Woman with Swan
1959
watercolor and oil on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Night in the Rafters
1974
oil on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Clan
1958
oil and watercolor on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Probe in the Bloodstream of the Oak
1958
collage with envelope, tempera on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Weird Sister
1953-62
oil on acetate
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Felt Action
1963
oil and felt on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
For Brown Environment Giant Vessels
1964
oil on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Brightly Lit Stag Chair
1957-71
oil on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
The Table
1952
watercolor on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Girl Pushing against Elastic Sculpture
1961
oil on paper
Tate Gallery

Joseph Beuys
Dove Food Rainbow
1949
watercolor on card
Tate Gallery

Safe to assume that major museums have already blocked out exhibition spaces for Joseph Beuys centennial retrospectives in 2021.