3 works on paper, oil paint and watercolour
Tate Collection
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ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
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Electricity
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
abstraction
creativity
electricity
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
energy
from recognisable sources
man-made
natural phenomena
objects
tools and machinery
turbine
universal concepts
paper unique 3 works oil paint watercolour
1 April 2010 – 27 September 2010
2010-09-27
1 April 2010 – 27 September 2010
2010-09-27
2010-04-01
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery (Glasgow, UK)
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk
2010-04-01
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
Electricity
support (upper): 238 × 336 mm
support (centre): 238 × 338 mm
support (lower): 238 × 337 mm
frame: 782 × 619 × 44 mm
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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>The lower section of this three-part work appears to be a schematic drawing of a turbine. It may be the item which is intended to be fitted inside the box at the centre of the work, to power the propeller on the right. Beuys used the principle of electricity and machines in some of his sculpture, so this work may anticipate a later sculpture. Electricity was, for Beuys, part of the much larger issue of energy and, in particular, of ways in which the key issue of human energy (creativity) could be harnessed.</p>

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abstraction creativity electricity emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas energy from recognisable sources man-made natural phenomena objects tools and machinery turbine universal concepts