Beuys

Joseph Beuys was a German artist, sculptor, performer and theorist and pedagogue of art. In the Second World War, he participated in Nazi Party, he went to Crimea, and in this place he had a plane crash, later he returned to Kleve with his parents. He retired of Nazi militancy because he became artist.

I like his performances, for example “I like America and America likes me”, Beuys interacted with one coyote, in René Block Gallery (New York), for three days. It has been dialogue between he and animal, he used some elements: a felt thick and staff. The coyote watched him, while Beuys coated with felt, until they got along. This performance shows the survival, because coyote is an American animal, so Beuys related with “the primitivism or the nature symbol” opposed to superpower politics of U.S.A.

Also he proposed the shamanism in his artworks, the art is something curative for people, above everything post World War, cause of many deaths, he thought that across performances he could cure society. Therefore, he explained a new concept of art about “anybody could be artist”, if there were actions representing ideas from visual arts, different techniques together with a body in movement.