In an amusing twist, another art / sex mixing was on view, on the form of Jeff Koons's kitschy marble Bourgeois Bust - Jeff and Ilona (1991), the faux - classical portrait of the artist embracing his ex-porn star wife. (magazine.art21.org)
Called «Lick and Lather» it featured 14 classical portrait busts of the artist — the kind of sculptures usually carved out of Grecian marble — cast in chocolate and soap. (observer.com)
Drawing inspiration from classical portrait painting of the 17th - century Dutch Golden Age to explore the relationship between her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle of sorts against their marginalization or confinement, and against the spatial and psychological encroachment of people. (museumpublicity.com)