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Gunter Brus is a German artist born on September 27, 1938. Known for his unique artistic style and creative techniques, Brus's works hold a significant place in the field of contemporary art.

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Art Hard Beautiful Purpose Art Is

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“My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.”

Body Results Events Intention

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“The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.”

Made Three Space White Rooms Objects Classic Canvas Interiors

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“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Ifs Believe Art Artist Next I Believe Opinion Painting Pure Concerned Drawing Rejects Formal Criteria Departure Programmes

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“Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.”

Looks Art Fields Art Is Hot Nasty Dwarfs

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“I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.”

Want Social Views Struggle Alive Areas Oneself Range Abstract Fairytale Outcast Staying Alive Social Outcast

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“Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.”

Art States Home Artist Art Is Monument Restoration Collectors Delirium

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“My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.”

Visuals Margins

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“For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing, the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.”

Writing Form Process Effort Wonderful Effects Ideals Drawing Interrupted Complement

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“Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.”

Writing Mistake Air Hot Making Mistakes Vomiting Hot Air

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“Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.”

Poetry Is

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“The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.”

Heart Cutting Strokes Pencils

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“Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.”

Facts Order Causes White Members Paint Covered Behaviour Offence Nuisance Breach

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“Color will play no part in the art of future.”

Art Play Color

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“You become an artist to upset your family.”

Artist Our Family Upset

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“As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.”

Way May Action Results Boys Experts Shy Echoes Harsh Compensation Upbringing Shyness

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“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience”

Humans Self Body Courses Lost Results Support Records Objects Painting Wall Development Function Cameras Surface Arise Sole Viewers Human Body Expressive Pictorial Incorporating

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About the Author

Born: September 27, 1938
Known for: Artist
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