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Robin Page
Robin Page (2 November 1932 – 12 May 2015) was a British painter. He was one of the early members of the Fluxus art movement.
Page was born in England in 1932. His father, Peter Carter-Page, was a humorist and cartoonist who worked as an animator at the Disney studios in Hollywood in the 1930s. The family moved to Canada where the young Page lived until the age of 27. Page moved back to Europe in 1959. He taught at Leeds College of Art in the north of England until 1967. He then moved to West Germany and associated with Fluxus artists, such as Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone, Daniel Spoerri, and Ben Vautier.
Page performed many Happenings, including one titled Guitar, which involved him in kicking his guitar with the help of an audience along The Mall, London for the ICA's Misfits concert. On another occasion Page made a chalk portrait drawing of Joseph Beuys, with begging bowl, on the pavement in front of the National Gallery. In 1966 he was with Gustav Metzger, Otto Muehl, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono and others a participant of the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London.
By 1970, Page had left the Fluxus movement and lived in Germany. He used humour to challenge notions of "good taste" in the art world. His Hey Wildon paintings mocked and commented on art, with traditional techniques of painting. Page poses the question "Hey, Whildon, why has humour never replaced seriousness as the most respectable cultural attitude?" to which Whildon replies "Because people can't fake it!" Later (by 1987) he had "died and gone to Bluebeard" which involved him in dying his beard blue (executed by Mike Spike Froidl - see the appropriate painting here). He produced a series of satirical paintings with elements from poster and propaganda art. His Bluebeard AMuseum mocked the notion of the Institution and placed himself at the centre of his art "collection", against private and state-run and cultural organisations. An example is the painting "Freedom is a Burning Brush" which features the artist posing as the Statue of Liberty, holding a paintbrush as a torch.
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Robin Page
Robin Page (2 November 1932 – 12 May 2015) was a British painter. He was one of the early members of the Fluxus art movement.
Page was born in England in 1932. His father, Peter Carter-Page, was a humorist and cartoonist who worked as an animator at the Disney studios in Hollywood in the 1930s. The family moved to Canada where the young Page lived until the age of 27. Page moved back to Europe in 1959. He taught at Leeds College of Art in the north of England until 1967. He then moved to West Germany and associated with Fluxus artists, such as Robert Filliou, Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone, Daniel Spoerri, and Ben Vautier.
Page performed many Happenings, including one titled Guitar, which involved him in kicking his guitar with the help of an audience along The Mall, London for the ICA's Misfits concert. On another occasion Page made a chalk portrait drawing of Joseph Beuys, with begging bowl, on the pavement in front of the National Gallery. In 1966 he was with Gustav Metzger, Otto Muehl, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono and others a participant of the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) in London.
By 1970, Page had left the Fluxus movement and lived in Germany. He used humour to challenge notions of "good taste" in the art world. His Hey Wildon paintings mocked and commented on art, with traditional techniques of painting. Page poses the question "Hey, Whildon, why has humour never replaced seriousness as the most respectable cultural attitude?" to which Whildon replies "Because people can't fake it!" Later (by 1987) he had "died and gone to Bluebeard" which involved him in dying his beard blue (executed by Mike Spike Froidl - see the appropriate painting here). He produced a series of satirical paintings with elements from poster and propaganda art. His Bluebeard AMuseum mocked the notion of the Institution and placed himself at the centre of his art "collection", against private and state-run and cultural organisations. An example is the painting "Freedom is a Burning Brush" which features the artist posing as the Statue of Liberty, holding a paintbrush as a torch.