Urban Art Association

£38 seems like an absolute bargain if its the deal real. Would love to have bagged that but was spending a great afternoon in Ikea instead. bugger!

Beuys is really underated imo, a real innovator. he was a complete fruit loop as well which adds to his appeal. He was also a bit of a political giant in Germany, the Royal Academy of Arts had a great exhibition on him a few years ago.

It is a signed post card. Produced 1982 as an unlimited edition. Worth £50.

Since 2004 Beuys prints come down due to a large publisher flooded thousands of Beuys prints in the market which have been sold by ebay. But that doesn't matter to drawings and paintings.

Underrated means significant deviation from normal curve of distribution. In case of Beuys prints it is given. So 'unterrated' is habitual language use.

OK sputny not going to let this drop are you? Ill explain myself then.

When I mentioned that Beuys was underrated I was alluding to the fact that he is an artistic equivolent of marmite. Essentially he has had polemics and hagiographic pieces written about him in almost equal measure. Back in the day a fair amount of the American art movement rejected his work. There was an uneasy mistrust about him being a luftwafe pilot in Nazi germany and to excatly what level he subscribed to nazism at the time. This is despite his outspoken political outlook, what with his Green party membership etc.. Also his ideas of 'everyone is an artist which in turn sculpts social order' sounded a bit like communism to hyper-paranoid USA.

As for him being underrated today, he doesnt seem to be a household name unlike many of his modernist contemporaries. His work is political and subversive and almost certainly boundry breaking yet the price tags of his works remain lower than others like picasso, pollock, rothko etc..

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