Joseph Beuys
German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921-1986)
Martin Puryear
African American artist
Martin L. Puryearis an Afro-American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.: 54-57 The artist’s Liberty/Liberta exhibition represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
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About the Martin Puryear
Martin L. Puryearis an Afro-American artist known for his devotion to traditional craft. Working in a variety of media, but primarily wood, his reductive technique and meditative approach challenge the physical and poetic boundaries of his materials.: 54-57 The artist’s Liberty/Liberta exhibition represented the United States at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
9 Quotes by Martin Puryear
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I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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I realized it wasn’t necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it’s almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist
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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
Martin PuryearAfrican American artist