Sentences with phrase «provocative body of paintings»

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McCarthy's provocative early performances in the late 1960s and 70s used his own body as the raw material to explore masculinity, where, drawing on performance art and action painting, he substituted the Viennese Actionists» sacrificial use of blood with ketchup and the Abstract Expressionists» paintbrush with phallic false limbs.

Along with Joan Semmel and Betty Tompkins, she appropriated for painting the provocative use of the female body that is usually limited to performance artists, including Carolee Schneemann and Valie Export in the late 1960s, and Vanessa Beecroft in more recent times.

In other text paintings, Tompkins incorporates close - ups of the female body, drawn from her own provocative oeuvre.

Simpson's provocative paintings and photographs tackle issues like gender, racial and sexual identity, and the concept of the human body.

Raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in the Bronx, Applebroog, now in her 80s, shares the provocative, sexual, and deeply personal body of work that has been expressed over decades in her drawings, paintings, and private journals.

The series of paintings made from the artist's clothes feels especially provocative and fresh alongside other bodies of work dating from the 1970s onward.

Since first bursting onto the scene in the early 1980s with his unique adaptation of the language of Old Master painting, George Condo has created one of the most adventurous, imaginative, and provocative bodies of work in contemporary art.