PINK De Thierry
PINK de Thierry (born Helena Scheerder, 1943) is a Dutch visual artist known for her meta-performance art projects, which included 100 days of living in a painting (''At Home'', 1984), 30 days of traveling in the US as a performance-art project in 1988, daily entering Arcadia for 60 days in Germany with ''Et in Arcadia Ego Sum'' in 1990–91 and leading the Royal Netherlands Army in constructing ''Checkpoint to Dutch Arcadia'' in 1994. Since 1995, she has created a series of works entitled ''Letters from Arcadia''. Early years Belgium, 1963–1971 PINK, began her career as a stage and film actress in Brussels under the name of Helen Pinck and oHelen Pink She trained with the experimental Living Theatre when it presented ''Frankenstein'' in Brussels, Jerzy Grotowski's protégé André Desrameaux and Yoshi Oida at Peter Brook's International Centre for Theatre Research in Paris. During her time in Brussels PINK was influenced by designer-artist Raphaël Opstaele, poet Mar ...
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Visual Arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts also involve aspects of visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art. Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied or decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, craft, or applied Visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement ...
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