Analysis Of I Like America By Joseph Beuys

Throughout the ages of art, there have been many an odd character. Likely the most well-known skew ball would be Van Gogh, an artist who is widely renowned for lobbing off his own ear and painting the Starry Night. However, he was not the first nor will be the last to become famous off questionable behavior. For example, Joseph Beuys. After some exposure to the tragedies of life, he began to share his point of view through a series of performances and painting style expositions. From I like America, America likes me to his piece How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, we view his wide range of creative displays that are trying to send messages to the world. Blurring the lines between the art world and real life, Beuys artwork was seen as …show more content…
Even though he wasn’t injured in any way, he was put on a stretcher and rode in an ambulance all the way to New York City, where he was caged in with a wild coyote for three days (TTA 2017). In a video posted online by The Thing About, we can watch how in the beginning, the coyote was acting somewhat aggressively by tearing up a blanket (2017). However, throughout the days, the coyote calms down with the massive amounts of respect that Beuys was giving to the animal …show more content…
Wardell explains how he was using the dead animal to show how there is no longer a loving relationship between nature and humans like there used to be (2006). While explaining paintings to the hare, Beuys was demonstrating how it was like an external organ of the human being, meaning that it could understand art in a way that people could not (Wardell 2006). In a sense, I believe that he was also trying to show how you don’t necessarily be intelligent to understand art, but rather be open to the experience of it