Andy Warhol Joseph Beuys: Slate II (F & S II.243) For Sale

Joseph Beuys State II acts as a sign of respect from one artist to another. The screenprint depicts the namesake highly influential German artist Joseph Beuys, printed four times on Lenox Museum Board. Beuys was best known for his ‘extended definition of art’ in which the ideas of social sculpture could potentially reshape society and politics, and was heavily impactful on the post-war art scene. 

Wearing his trilby hat that is as iconic as Warhol’s blonde wig, Beuys gazes out towards the viewer, rendered in a gradient of red, purple, green, white, and yellow. The outline of his face pops off against the dark, black background. Beuys was an untouchable cultural icon, whose persona was as carefully cultivated as those from Warhol’s portfolios, from Marilyn Monroe to Mick Jagger, to Chairman Mao. He is captured closely, taken from a polaroid Warhol took of him at the Hans Mayer gallery in Dusseldorf, where the artists met in person for the first time.

Warhol, the champion of materialism, fame, and superficial attractiveness, "stood for America," as the gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac describes. He held up a mirror to the world, exposing the excesses of civilization. Beuys, a sincere ecologist, spiritualist, and founding member of the Green Party, spoke for Germany when the old world began to resurface in the wake of Nazism. According to Ropac, "He believed that art could change society." Despite their artistic differences, Warhol and Beuys collaborated in 1985 where, along with Japanese artist Kaii Higashiyama, they created ‘Global-Art-Fusion’. The project aimed to call for peace within the Cold War, across the globe. Although Warhol usually avoided politics, the series shows how art was used to unify artists, despite varying differences in their artistic practice.

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