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
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 form manifest total
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
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.
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.
art school fine
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.