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Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982) is a South African artist who has become famous for her sculptures, videos and photographs [1] that focus on human female body and identity by using natural, organic materials. Her art style has been self described as eclectic and androgynous. [2]
Similar to his One Minute Sculptures, Wurm uses the human body to provide the material to make this sculpture. [19] The artist's intention for the audience is to feel as if their bodies are filled with the food from reading the instruction book and become the sculptures themselves. [16] It serves as a comeback to self-help books that idealize a ...
Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84631-181-9. Mitchell, Rob. Bioart and the Vitality of Media. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-295-99008-8. Mitchell, Rob, Helen Burgess, and Phillip Thurtle. Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information. Pennsylvania ...
His artwork often encompasses the human body. He is categorized by some critics as an artist of the "cadaver school," which consists of artists who tend to use human body parts in their work. [2] Yu's most famous piece of conceptual art, titled "Eating People," was performed at a Shanghai arts festival in 2000.
Emma Dawes (born 1987), known professionally as Emma Fay, is an English visual artist specialising in body painting and makeup. Her painted human bodies are documented through photography and film, as well as being created as live installations. Fay has created artwork for commercial domains and her own fine art practice. [1]
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the marquess of Caravaggio, a town 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Milan and south of Bergamo. [7]
Trina Merry (born 1980). [1] is an American multimedia artist that uses the human body as a brush or a surface.She is best known for her trompe l’oeil street art performances that camouflage human canvases into their environments as well as her op art "human sculpture" installations.
La liberté en écorchée, 2013 : this 3D video shows the artist's body modeled in 3D. It is a manifesto insisting both on the "flayed" nature of artists and on his responsibility concerning this notion of freedom to be constantly defended. Robes sans corps, Sculptures de plis, 2010: sculptures of drapery without body, in gold leaf resin or ...