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  2. Erwin Wurm - Wikipedia

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    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 slender, healthy body. [19] Wurm's artistic process of utilizing the human body with the live-action event as a ...

  3. Nandipha Mntambo - Wikipedia

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    Nandipha Mntambo was born in Swaziland, Southern Africa, in 1982.Growing up, her father was a Methodist pastor and later became a bishop. His occupation allowed her family to live in white neighbourhoods during apartheid, an aspect of her life that serves as an influence for her art and identity as an artist. [4]

  4. Zhu Yu (artist) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Caravaggio - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Wikipedia

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    In The Spring, the human portrait was composed of only various spring flowers and plants. From the hat to the neck, every part of the portrait, even the lips and nose, was composed of flowers, while the body was composed of plants. On the other hand, in The Winter, the human was composed mostly of roots of trees. Some leaves from evergreen ...

  7. Pablo Picasso - Wikipedia

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    From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. Ruiz was a traditional academic artist and instructor, who believed that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing the human body from plaster casts and live models.

  8. Bioart - Wikipedia

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    Regenerative Reliquary (2016) by American bioartist Amy Karle.Human stem cells were grown to form bone over a preformed hydrogel scaffold in the shape of a hand.. Bioart is an art practice where artists work with biology, live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes.

  9. Amedeo Modigliani - Wikipedia

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    The several dozen nudes Modigliani painted between 1916 and 1919 constitute many of his best-known works. This series of nudes was commissioned by Modigliani's dealer and friend Léopold Zborowski, who lent the artist use of his apartment, supplied models and painting materials, and paid him between fifteen and twenty francs each day for his work.