Arguably one of Europe's greatest artists of the 20th century, German born Lucian Freud moved to Britain in 1933 to escape persecution as a Jew. This week we mark the birth of this extraordinary artist, reflecting on his life and remarkable legacy.
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Lawrence Weiner: The Means to Answer Questions
An interview with the legendary conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner about the connection between cruelty, hierarchy and rationality. The artist must ask questions past ordinary logic, he says. In this interview Weiner philosophises on how the artist can present things people might not have noticed. Art is not meant to answer questions, but rather to ask them.
"An artist every day takes the chance of going mad, because you find yourself in situations that are past the point of logic you understand. You have to re-adapt your own logic, just to be able to communicate with somebody else."
Lawrence Weiner: The Means to Answer Questions
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Some sage advice for artists from David Shrigley
“You’re on the right track if you’re excited about what you’re doing.”
"You're on the right track if you're excited about what you're doing." Artist David Shrigley, known for his humorous spin on common situations, here advises his young colleagues to be open to learning from mistakes and stresses that being an artist "isn't for everybody."
The painter Jörg Immendorff
The painter Jörg Immendorff is one of the best known contemporary German artists and one of the most political. Inspired by his teacher, Joseph Beuys, in the mid-1960's the young Immendorff involved himself in West German politics. Video available in German, English, Spanish, French and Russian: http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/prj/kub/bdk/en3933424.htm © Goethe-Institut