Sentences with phrase «naked body of the artist»

Not exact matches

Immediately compelling for its subject and formal decisions such as cropping and frontality, Green Heart shows the direction her paintings would take in the 1970s: carefully descriptive, cool, colorful depictions of sex and naked bodies, sourced by the disembodied camera, but reinterpreted in paint by the artist.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

Curated with verve and sophistication by Diana Widmaier Picasso, and seductively titled from a work of Ed Ruscha's depicting (go figure) an Alp, it nonetheless begged to shock with a flagrance of merged bodies, frontal erection, the fetishist mannequins of pop artist Allen Jones, life - size interactions led by Dirty — Jeff on Top (that's Koons, entering La Cicciolina), and a recreated modelling studio featuring two stark - naked live models who came off more like strippers.

Zhang Huan at Chesa Büsin features a photographic still from his renowned performance 12 Square Meters (1994) in which the artist inflicted extreme conditions upon his naked body, drawing inspiration from performance artists of the 1960s.

Neel's famous naked self - portrait (1980) depicts the artist in old age, perched on a blue and white striped sofa surrounded by blocks of vital color — green, yellow, blue — calm and fearless in herself, staring at the viewer through slightly skewed glasses (her only attire), mouth firmly downturned and cheeks ruddy above the deliquescence of her aged body, a sinking galleon of pale flesh.

Nauman's piece also relates to other explorations of the body by artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including Yves Klein's Anthropometries (1960), in which Klein painted naked women with his distinctive International Klein Blue paint and made imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper.

This body of work — a significant addition to the legacy of American subculture photography forged by the likes of Peter Hujar, David Wojnarwicz, Philip - Lorca diCorcia and Nan Goldin — is characterized by McGinley's idiosyncratic admixture of hopefulness and self - awareness, as well as his unembarrassed disclosure of the melodrama of youth, its inextricably intertwined joy and heartbreak: the artist shows us his debauched, frequently naked friends, laughing and weeping, taking drugs and having sex, tagging walls and pissing off roofs.

Both artists shared an interest in the female human body and one can imagine that Mapplethorpe might have looked at Bouguereau's renowned work «Birth of Venus» (1879) and considered how he depicted the pale white skin of a naked female torso.

Hang's seemingly sexually explicit works, full of naked bodies and private body parts, reveal the artist's extraordinary skill in managing desexualized nudity and turning human bodies into mesmerizing living sculptures and paintings, captured with his camera.

A lithograph by Egon Schiele opens The Nakeds at the Drawing Room, a group show of drawings from 23 artists focusing on the naked body.

The naked body is frequently the physical terrain artists traverse in search of the inner self.

Looking at the work of younger women artists today, we find glimpses of naked body parts and even genitalia in Cecily Brown's sexy abstractions, for example, but her imagery is more about hide - and - seek amid gorgeous brushwork than putting the male body center stage.

Given women's greater autonomy in general and in sexual matters in particular, it should be payback time, a chance for the woman artist's gaze to linger on the naked male body as a source of esthetic delight and desire.

: the work entitled Antropometrie (1960) consisted of the artist «painting» a canvas with the support of naked women painted in blue, who had to stamp their body - silhouettes on it.

Rist creates Arcadias and dreamscapes of naked bodies in boundless optical oceans of projected color, accompanied often by music or the artist's voice carrying us as far away as the video format has ever taken us.

«Body of Art juxtaposes Sandro Botticelli's Venus with Vanessa Beecroft's army of naked women, the iconic head of Nefertiti, and the work of Ryan Trecartin, among many other artists, to stunning effect.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

By performing feats like rubbing his naked body against a white table and then slathering his penis and testicles with what Americans normally put on their French fries, he inspired generations of artists who adored coating themselves in condiments or inserting objects into their anuses, such as Matthew Barney or Karen Finley.

In «Closer», Blanca finds himself in an embrace of found serenity — the artists naked body interlocked by two young female figures, allegories of eternal beauty.

She laid naked on blocks of ice, cut herself and screamed until she lost her voice: Marina Abramovic used her body as a radical tool of expression like no other artist before her.

Wilke's miniature gum vagina sculptures that she stuck on her naked body; Schneemann's interior origami scroll pulled from within her vagina that she read out loud to an audience; and Schapiro's luscious red Big Ox with its central cavity void all speak to feminist artists» reclamation of their bodies.

I have my Artist Talk today out on the front stage of the museum which opens to the street anyone walking by could see my naked body covered in chocolate pudding / and black food coloring (The Oil Spill) or me covered in diet books.

Among those artists included using photography as their medium, who have determined that body parts alone will suffice, Wolfgang Tillmans chooses to show only his knee, while Eberhard Havekost's contribution is a detail of a hotel room interior with the toes of the artist's right foot poking up into it; Friederike Pezold's, Brustwerk, 1973, is a six - part polyptych in which her hands manipulate her naked breasts.

Hang's works are often considered to be highly controversial due to display of naked bodies, in combination with plants or animals, in erotically explicit poses which was in accordance with the artist's critical agenda.

Temptation of «One Dark Body» is a work that demanded bravery from artist and subjects alike; Wilson had never photographed male nudes and his subjects had never been photographed naked.

As we all know, the performance artist Carolee Schneemann created a masterpiece of feminist art when, on August 29, 1975, she climbed a table in East Hampton, dropped a bed sheet from her naked body, and slowly pulled a long scroll from her vagina while reading aloud its contents, a text written from the perspective of a cat.

By putting on display these symbols and clichés, which are the signs of African identity and black femininity as constructed by the Western world since colonisation — such as the presence of masks, naked, tattooed, and sexualized bodies — the artist intends to confront the public with these constructions head - on.

In essence it's event which celebrates exploration of inner - self and how did artists perceived naked human body through time.

The practice of drawing a naked body, either from the self, life model, reproduction or imagination, has provided the artist with the freedom to explore the inner self.

«I'm interested in sensuous pleasure and the power of the naked body as an active image rather than the same old, pacified, immobilized, historicized body,» Schneemann remarks, «So for me, to activate and determine the energy of my naked body as imagery was to disrupt all the traditions I had learned — where you belong to the male artist and were passive and sort of splayed out.»

Zhang Huan, Chinese artist known for both his early photographed performance art that often showcased his own naked body and for his later production of a great variety of large mass - produced objects.

«Amarillo Total» the name of the horse, not only stopped the ecologic blow but also paraded the models who had been completely painted by our artist, their naked painted bodies put another body to painting, with artesan colours prepared with earth and plants pigments.