PlayArt
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PlayArt is an art concept that focuses on the close connection between play and creativity. It emphasizes the importance of play for the creative development of art, science and culture.
concept
The term PlayArt was coined in 1962 by the German artist Ernst Lurker . He emphasized playfulness as an important source of inspiration for the creation of art, but conceptually went one step further. Lurker considered playfulness to be central to the perception and understanding of art. Playful handling of it should not let the recipient pause in reverent contemplation. Touching and playful manipulation of art should deepen your direct sensual experience and at the same time stimulate your own imagination and creativity. For this purpose, Lurker created movable sculptures in his work, which the viewer can take in hand and arrange into ever new forms.
Reception in the art world
PlayArt found resonance in the art world. The German art historian and professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg , Hanns Theodor Flemming , gave PlayArt a status comparable to that of the Pop Art and Op Art movements . In 1969, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York planned a PlayArt exhibition. However, it remained unrealized due to the unexpected change of the responsible curator Lanier Graham to the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. Nonetheless, MoMA promoted the PlayArt concept in a different way. It commissioned its founder Lurker to design several PlayArt objects, which were produced in series and sold in the MoMA's museum shop.
This kind of promotion was entirely in Lurker's mind. He saw the spread of serially produced PlayArt objects as the best possible promotion of creativity in the sense of his concept of the same name. Although he therefore saw the small format as important for spreading the PlayArt philosophy, Lurker also realized some of his works in large format. So was z. B. realized his object “Tinkerlinks” for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich's Olympic Park.
literature
- Ernst Lurker: Play Art and Creativity , 1985
- Kelly Ann Smith: Play Art , East Hampton Press, USA, January 21, 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christmas Shop Opens. (PDF) The Museum of Modem Art, November 13, 1970, accessed on March 11, 2020 .