Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg , Switzerland – 30 August 1991 in Bern ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor . He is best known for h...
Tuesday 23 November 2010
Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland – 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.
Tinguely grew up in Basel, but moved to France as a young adult to pursue a career in art. He belonged to the Parisian avantgarde in the mid-twentieth century and was one of the artists who signed the New Realist's manifesto (Nouveau réalisme) in 1960.
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
In Arthur Penn's Mickey One (1965) the mime-like Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara) with his self-destructive machine is an obvious Tinguely tribute.
Jean Tinguely was an amazing painter and sculptor artist. However, he became a famous kinetic artist. I recently discovered Jean Tinguely while studying a kinetic art
Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York: A Self Destructing Artistic Masterpiece
Jean Tinguely was born on May 22, 1925. He is an amazing artist, Swiss painter, and sculpture. His most famous genre was from kinetic art. Jean Tinguely turned materials from excess gluttony of mass materials of production and made amazing art pieces. He passed away on August 30, 1991 at the age of 66.
In 1960, Jean Tinguely invented Homage to New York. He had every intention of turning this piece of art into an art of self-destruction. However, Jean’s artistic masterpiece fell short of his expectation of self-destruction at the Museum of Modern Arts which is located in New York City. Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York is about more than machine. It is about many machines and devices that are passed its time and needs vast improvements. “Some of the machinery that runs New York City was exposed as vulnerable, pathetic, and comic, but Tinguely humanized the machinery as he exposed it. Even death was suggested, for Homage to New York was self destructing: the piano was wired for burning, and in turn, the whole structure collapsed” (Humanities, 143).
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