Art destruction is the decay or material destruction of original works of art. This can happen willfully, accidentally, or through natural processes.
Many works of visual art are intended by the artist to be temporary. They may be created in media which the artist knows to be temporary, such as sand, or they may be designed specifically to be recycled. Often the destruction takes place during a ceremony or special event. Examples of this type of art include street painting, sand art such as sandcastles, ice sculptures and edible art.
Some artists sabotage their own work out of insecurity, neurosis, or to start over. In 1970, John Baldessari and five other artists burned all the paintings Baldessari had created between 1953 and 1966 in a bonfire.
The 2018 artwork Love is in the BinbyBanksy was designed with a shredder hidden in the frame, activated upon the painting's sale at auction to destroy the lower half of the artwork.[1]
Some artwork is made to be intentionally sacrificed in a ceremonial or ritual process, often by burning.
Other works of art may be destroyed without the consent of the original artist or of the local community. In other instances, works of art may destroyed by a local authority against the wishes of the outside community. Examples of this include the removal of Diego Rivera's 1934 Man at the Crossroads mural from the Rockefeller Center and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan statues by the Taliban government.
Investigators found bombs of aerosol paint in his bag. No doubt to blot out the masterpieces of the museum.
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