Joseph Beuys Fliz-TV Visual Analysis

On November 30, 1970 German television station ARD aired 20 short art films as part of project Fliz-TV(felt-TV).The collection of works by 20 of the leading artists of the 1960's was titled identifications and one of these short films was created by German artist Joseph Beuys a sculptor and performance artist who defied the conventions of the objective and subjective aesthetic visual concepts of American art forms such as pop art and its ideals of commercialism, and abstract expressionism with its use of subject based on human emotion, Buyes was seen as being a part of the movement known as Fluxus a group of artists that attempted to move away from the avant-garde art forms that were dominating the 50s and 60s.

The 11 minute video that was aired showed Buyes sitting in front of a television that has a felt pad covering the screen that is turned on, with the sound still turned up. The TV presenter is talking of the prices of meat and dairy at the time, Beuys then preceded to punch himself in the face wearing boxing gloves, then he carved a chunk out of a sausage and rubbed

The work demonstrates the belief he had that concept or idea was superior to aesthetic visuals, for

The work of art is conveyed as a unity of concept, visualisation and the artist who provides the idea". Beuys believed that "if one where, by default, an artist, then one might be an artist everywhere, or in every context in which one finds