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This is a 6 page paper comparing and contrasting the works and politics of the artists Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol. Artists Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol lived and worked basically at the same time from the 1920s to the 1980s. Beuys, who grew up fairly conservatively, served in the war and held an academic position, expressed a great deal of warmth and hope in his art works which was also reflected in his political and philosophical outlook on life. He believed that all humans were students of life and it was their obligation to use their creativity throughout their disciplines to integrate the ideals of all cultures. Throughout his lifetime he was the founder of several activist groups designed to allow for a more open-minded society. His convictions to freedom of education were often at his own expense as he sacrificed a great deal for his activism. Warhol was known as one of the most influential commercial and pop culture artists of his time. His outlook on life and the human race was somewhat more grim than Beuys’ however as he believed that modern culture should and does act like a machine. He stressed that he was superficial along with the rest of society and used his celebrity to further his career mostly in the art, film, music and television industries. He did however use some of his exhibitions to display some of what he considered to be disasters of the twentieth century but most of his activism was through his art and not through outward causes like Beuys.
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war and held an academic position, expressed a great deal of warmth and hope in his art works which was also reflected in his political and philosophical outlook on life.
He believed that all humans were students of life and it was their obligation to use their creativity throughout their disciplines to integrate the ideals of all cultures. Throughout his
lifetime he was the founder of several activist groups designed to allow for a more open-minded society. His convictions to freedom of education were often at his own expense as
he sacrificed a great deal for his activism. Warhol was known as one of the most influential commercial and pop culture artists of his time. His outlook on life and
the human race was somewhat more grim than Beuys however as he believed that modern culture should and does act like a machine. He stressed that he was superficial along
with the rest of society and used his celebrity to further his career mostly in the art, film, music and television industries. He did however use some of his exhibitions
to display some of what he considered to be disasters of the twentieth century but most of his activism was through his art and not through outward causes like Beuys.
The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefeld Germany near the Dutch
border in 1921. His early years were spent pursuing natural sciences and art and he decided on a career in medicine. In 1940 he joined the military and worked as
an aircraft radio operator and combat pilot and was severely wounded many times. Near the end of the war, he was held in a British prisoner-of-war camp before returning to
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