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Damaging or destruction of works of art
Art destruction
is the decay or material destruction of original works of
art
. This can happen willfully,
accidentally
, or through natural processes.
Temporary artwork
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Many works of visual art are intended by the artist to be temporary. They may be created in media which the artist knows to be temporary, such as sand, or they may be designed specifically to be recycled. Often the destruction takes place during a ceremony or special event. Examples of this type of art include
street painting
,
sand art
such as sandcastles,
ice sculptures
and
edible art
.
Artists who sabotage their own work
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Some artists sabotage their own work out of insecurity, neurosis, or to start over. In 1970,
John Baldessari
and five other artists burned all the paintings Baldessari had created between 1953 and 1966 in a bonfire.
The 2018 artwork
Love is in the Bin
by
Banksy
was designed with a shredder hidden in the frame, activated upon the painting's sale at auction to destroy the lower half of the artwork.
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"Sacrifice" of ritual artwork
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Some artwork is made to be intentionally sacrificed in a ceremonial or ritual process, often by burning.
- Tibetan
sand mandalas
are meticulously constructed to visualize Buddhist cosmology, before being swept up and bottled or otherwise ritually disposed
- Burning Man
is an arts festival in the
Nevada
desert which serves as a psychedelic community. On the last day of the festival, a giant wooden mannequin is ritually burned.
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- The
Semana Santa
(Easter week) festival in
Antigua
,
Guatemala
, where designs made out of flowers and colored sawdust are created in the street prior to being trampled by a religious parade.
- The burning of
Zozobra
during
Fiestas de Santa Fe
in
Santa Fe, New Mexico
, usually during the second week of September.
- The burning of
falles
in
Valencia
, Spain.
- Radoslav Rochallyi
claims that his creative process is a ritual of creation and destruction. He claims that for him, the new replaces the old as passionately and carelessly as the old is destroyed.
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Iconoclasm
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Other works of art may be destroyed without the consent of the original artist or of the local community. In other instances, works of art may destroyed by a local authority against the wishes of the outside community. Examples of this include the removal of
Diego Rivera
's 1934
Man at the Crossroads
mural from the
Rockefeller Center
and the destruction of the
Buddhas of Bamyan
statues by the
Taliban
government.
See also
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References
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Bibliography
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- Gunnar Schmidt:
Klavierzerstorungen in Kunst und Popkultur.
Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2012.
ISBN
978-3-496-01475-1
.
- Anne-Marie O'Connor: The Lady in Gold, the Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
ISBN
0-307-26564-1
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