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Ultimately, you can spend way too much time stressing about creating a specific style for your art rather than creating. The only way to develop a unique voice is by making a lot of art. That leads me to the first benefit of creating a body of art: Challenge Your Skill and Work Ethic Modern Art Oxford is an arts charity founded in 1965. It is a space for everyone to enjoy and experience contemporary art, for free. Every exhibition and event at Modern Art Oxford is supported financially by friends of the gallery and members of the public who help to safeguard our future by making regular donations. Without the support of these generous and committed individuals, we would be unable to produce these inspirational exhibitions, events and activities. The Vienna Action Group was formed in 1965 by Hermann Nitsch, Otto Mühl, Günter Brus, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. [2] They performed several body art actions, usually involving social taboos (such as genital mutilation). [ citation needed] Vito Acconci once documented, through photos and text, his daily exercise routine of stepping on and off a chair for as long as possible over several months. Acconci also performed Following Piece, in which he followed randomly chosen New Yorkers. [3] Gina Pane was a French artist who was a key member of Art Corporel - the French body art movement she helped found in the early 1970s. One of her most famous works is The Conditioning, where she lay on a metal bed frame above lit candles for half an hour. This was an extremely painful experience for the artist, and the audience could see her physical suffering in the automatic pain responses of her body, such as flinching and wringing her hands. Critic Sam Johnson argues that, "while the candles and bed suggested ideas of sexual love and pleasure, the manner in which Pane positioned her body around these objects caused her harm and surreptitiously threw up questions around the fixed notions of pleasure and pain." Pane's work draws the viewer's attention to the way in which female sexual experience (especially in the female loss of virginity) is regularly associated with pain and suffering in common formulations.

In 2008, the Australian artist, Stelarc, began a project in which he grew a genetically-cloned ear on his left arm. This cloned organ will, after continuing surgery, be fitted with a microphone and linked to the internet, so that we will all be able to listen, from our PCs, to what Stelarc is hearing through his 'extra ear'.

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Artist can often feel like showing their artwork in a gallery is a sign of success. If this is you, galleries want to see consistency in art and work ethic, both of which I’ve noted earlier in this article. You still have 8 paintings in the first style you explored. And you worked at it for a while, spending time to “figure it out” before the boredom set in. Today I want to talk to you about the benefits of creating a body of art. Why create work for a portfolio or in a series? What use is there in doing this for us creators? Body of Art Versus a Series Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. Body art covers a wide spectrum including tattoos, body piercings, scarification, and body painting. Body art may include performance art, body art is likewise utilized for investigations of the body in an assortment of different media including painting, casting, photography, film and video. [1] More extreme body art can involve mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits.

The body can be seen and represented in so many ways; sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes wrinkled and abject; at certain moments powerful, erotic and sacred even, at other times broken, lifeless, disgusting even. Countless famous artists investigated many ideas, techniques, and styles over time. Picasso is a great example of this. Look up Picasso cubism versus Picasso blue period and you will see what I mean. Monument to Unknown Prostheses was produced a decade later. Two figures wear prosthetic arms reminiscent of ‘work-arms’ developed by the rehabilitation industry (there are chilling photographs of men using these while working in armament factories). Both have injuries to the head, pointing to psychological and physical damage, while a third sits with legs awaiting prostheses to be fitted. Unlike Cripples Portfolio, this does not ask for help: it depicts mechanised bodies reconfigured for industrial production. The heroes of this satiric monument are the prostheses, the human cost of war, and the new ready-for-production body.

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Green, John (2005). Looking for Alaska. New York: Dutton Children's. pp. 67–69. ISBN 978-0-525-47506-4.

The editors of Body of Art...had a daunting amount of material from which to choose for their survey of the human body across centuries and cultures. They have done so with real imagination, deftly mixing the old...with the new...and juxtaposing them in themes... The effects – and the similarities and differences – are continually surprising.' – The Sunday TimesIt was after I made this commitment to my art and fully investigated my idea that I made a new connection: that I should put myself into the paintings. This would be how viewers understand some of what I am feeling. However, by turning this into a public act and then photographing herself with the tattoo in the nude, EXPORT co-opts a symbol of female restriction and transforms it into one of personal empowerment - a badge of liberation. In her own words, "incorporated in a tattoo, the garter belt signifies a former enslavement, is a garment symbolizing repressed sexuality, an attribute of our non-self-determined womanhood. A social ritual that covers up a bodily need is unmasked, our culture's opposition to the body is laid open." While at Colgate University I had to create a body of work to display for my senior thesis. We had to be able to speak about the meaning and message behind the work and answer questions offered by the professors. I had the beginnings of an idea: my family existed well before I was born (my sister is 16 years older than I am, my brother 11). I remember looking through photos and feeling nostalgic and even jealous I wasn’t a part of the family for those memories. Cultural historian Sabine Kampmann argues that EXPORT made a radical choice in making her own skin the substrate for her art: "EXPORT makes an association between human skin, vellum (hide prepared for scripture), and books to legitimize her extraordinary choice of skin as material for her artwork." She was making the statement that writing on her own skin was no different than writing on a piece of paper, albeit with messages whose permanence perhaps carried greater weight.