4 works on paper, graphite and paper
Text and Language
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747" aria-label="More by Joseph Beuys" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Beuys</a>
La Piantagione
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
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Bolognano
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
ecology
emotions, concepts and ideas
environment / nature
forest
inscriptions
Italy
landscape
non-representational
notes and diagrams
places
social comment
society
symbols and personifications
text
tree
universal concepts
paper unique 4 works graphite
La Piantagione
support: 417 × 296 mm
frame: 680 × 525 × 33 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>Nature played an important role in Beuys's art. While his early drawings and paintings depicted nature or used natural elements and pigments, his later work combined his interests in politics and nature. The title of this drawing translates as 'The Plantation' in Italian. It relates to a project the artist began in 1984, on his sixty-third birthday, to plant four hundred trees and bushes in Bolognano. He was made an honorary citizen of the town in the same year. Beuys particularly loved Italy, and his work was exhibited there during his lifetime more than in any other country.</p>

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abstraction Bolognano cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents ecology emotions, concepts and ideas environment / nature forest inscriptions Italy landscape non-representational notes and diagrams places social comment society symbols and personifications text tree universal concepts