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KCRW's Art Talk|To Love It All Episode
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that artists cannot make good art
from, including such strange substances as bodily fluids and excrement,
both animal and human. You may remember the controversy surrounding the
paintings by Chris Ofili, the British artist whose trademark material
is elephant dung. Bull's urine was used in the past to produce a
particular yellow paint, famous for its warm, golden glow. Andy Warhol
made a series of so-called 'piss paintings,' where he and his
assistants literally urinated on canvas treated with copper; the
resulting 'Oxidations' elevated a lowly process into high art. Anselm
Kiefer, a celebrated German artist, deals with apocalyptic subjects and
uses for his art everything from hay to semen...
[ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:01 +0000 ]
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