Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguelywas 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...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth22 May 1925
CountrySwitzerland
art form manifest total
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
art school fine
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
art wonderful great-men
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.
moving simple might
If I had to, I would ask first of all: why do things move in your work? It’s the most simple, and also the most complicated, question. And I answer: things move because if they didn’t move, they might move …
art common authority
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.
art communication reality
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.