Archive for the ‘body art’ Category
Performing on Paper
Yves Klein, the subject of a current retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. and the maker of this image, liked to compare his work to “ashes.” Creativity is often likened to an inner fire, and this work is the end product of an elaborate creative process. Klein, a proto-performance artist, wanted art to [...]
In: body art, contemporary · Tagged with: Anthropometry, Hirshhorn Museum, Yves Klein
Body Art
I saw Catherine Opie’s retrospective at the Guggenheim last year and liked some of it very much, especially the portraits of suburban houses and ice fishermen. But the work she’s best known for–high definition, large format portraits of subculture communities– sometimes seems too obvious to me. The piercings, the full-body tattoos, the shaved heads, and [...]
In: body art, contemporary, photography, portraiture · Tagged with: Catherine Opie
Handiwork
Just back from Lisbon, where I saw a beautiful photograph by a contemporary Portuguese photographer named Helena Almeida. It is one of several of her works in the Berardo Collection of modern art, but the only one on display. In the gallery the eight images are laid out in a long horizontal line and they [...]
In: body art, contemporary, photography, portraiture · Tagged with: Berardo Collection, Helena Almeida, Lisbon