Funism is an art movement founded in 1991 by Norm Magnusson in New York City.
Its basic tenets have remained the same:
1) Art should be intellectually engaging without being intellectually elitist, and
2) Art should be as much fun to look at as it is to think about.
Unlike so many other art movements, this one is philosophically focused rather than aesthetically, or design focused.
Norm Magnusson (born March 20, 1960) is a New York-based artist and political activist.
Founder of the art movement Funism, he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion.
This led him away from the canvas and into the public realm where he created short videos that ran on U.S. national television prior to 2004's U.S. general election, viral emails and roadside historical markers with contemporary social content.
In the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art (Franklin Furnace Artist's Book Archive), The Springfield Museum of Art, The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, The Pember Museum and numerous other public and private collections, he has exhibited at these museum and for many years before it closed, at the infamous East Village-born Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery in NYC. His sculptures of historical markers were shown at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's 2007 Main Street Sculpture Project, a show entitled "On this site stood." He was honored with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999 and a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2008 for the realization of "On this site stood - lower Manhattan" a project to put 'historical' plaques with contemporary social content around lower Manhattan in summer 2009.
Its basic tenets have remained the same:
1) Art should be intellectually engaging without being intellectually elitist, and
2) Art should be as much fun to look at as it is to think about.
Unlike so many other art movements, this one is philosophically focused rather than aesthetically, or design focused.
Norm Magnusson (born March 20, 1960) is a New York-based artist and political activist.
Founder of the art movement Funism, he began his career creating allegorical animal paintings with pointed social commentaries. Eventually became more and more interested in political art and its potential for persuasion.
This led him away from the canvas and into the public realm where he created short videos that ran on U.S. national television prior to 2004's U.S. general election, viral emails and roadside historical markers with contemporary social content.
In the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art (Franklin Furnace Artist's Book Archive), The Springfield Museum of Art, The Anchorage Museum of History and Art, The Pember Museum and numerous other public and private collections, he has exhibited at these museum and for many years before it closed, at the infamous East Village-born Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery in NYC. His sculptures of historical markers were shown at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's 2007 Main Street Sculpture Project, a show entitled "On this site stood." He was honored with a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999 and a grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2008 for the realization of "On this site stood - lower Manhattan" a project to put 'historical' plaques with contemporary social content around lower Manhattan in summer 2009.
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