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Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear, Easel and Japanese Print, January 1889.Van Gogh, who struggled with poverty and mental illness for most of his life, is regarded as a famous example of the tortured artist.
Auto-destructive art (ADA) is a form of art invented by Gustav Metzger, an artist born in Bavaria who moved to Britain in 1939. Taking place after World War II , Metzger wanted to showcase the destruction created from the war through his artwork.
"Self Destruction" is the only single by the Stop the Violence Movement, a group formed by American rapper KRS-One in 1988 in response to violence in the hip hop and African American communities. The single raised over $100,000 that was donated to the National Urban League .
Rapper Doug E. Fresh discusses how the song "Self Destruction" put America on notice about the gun violence epidemic killing Black men.
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a stateless artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger was recognised for his protests in the political and artistic realms.
His best-known work, a self-destroying sculpture titled Homage to New York (1960), only partially self-destructed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, [4] [5] [6] although his later work, Study for an End of the World No. 2 (1962), detonated successfully in front of an audience gathered in the desert outside Las Vegas.
A music video was created, and a VHS cassette entitled Overcoming Self-Destruction – The Making of the Self-Destruction Video was also released. "Self-Destruction" was produced by KRS-One and D-Nice of Boogie Down Productions (Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad is credited as an associate producer).
The $120,000 banana at the center of Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian' piece has been repurposed into performance art by a South Korean art student.