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Weekly Creation #31: The Light on New Years Day

4 January 2009 | 0:00 | Photography (Mine), Weekly Creation | no reply

Week of 01.04.09 - 01.10.09

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This is the first light I saw on New Years Day 2009.

I hope your first full week of the new year is a good one!

Other People’s Art: Joseph Beuys’ Early Drawings

1 January 2009 | 22:35 | Other Peoples Art | no reply

Self in Stone, 1955

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Norns l’esprit troublé, 1960

I find myself being very attracted to the primitive quality of these drawings…

Beuys touches on his premise for making them here:

“This extensive collection of drawings is a groping attempt to address the anthropos, the human race in its spiritual manifestations in various cultures. Perhaps I’m a reborn cave artist transposed into a culture that bombards me with such elemental questions, placing human dignity and the dignity of nature and animals into the center of immediate personal experience. This first awareness of what is being exterminated and destroyed in out world is the beginning of a theory of sculpture… is a logical beginning, and this brings forth an abundant world of images from which concepts gradually emerge.”

-Joseph Beuys, 1984