Posted on 03/10/2009 1:13:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The British artist Rebecca Warren is best known for her squidgy, strangely formless sculptures made from unfired clay. Pock-marked with thumbprints, the bumps and clefts of her signature works resemble buttocks and breasts, lending them a potent aura of female sexuality. Her most famous piece, a brutal riff on voyeurism called Helmut Crumb (1998), which was inspired by a Helmut Newton photograph and a cartoon by Robert Crumb, presents two crudely modelled clay sculptures of a woman's naked haunches and legs, ending in clumpy high heels.
Born in 1965, and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2006, Warren once said that she wanted her sculptures to look "like they'd been made by a sort of pervy middle-aged provincial art teacher who'd taken me over".
There are plenty of her familiar sexually charged works in her new survey exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, her first major solo show in a public gallery in Britain. In her series We Are Dead, large lumps of greyish clay are presented on MDF plinths painted a light sugary pink. There is an abandon and a playfulness to these improbably tactile, unfinished-looking works, which almost demand to be modelled by the viewer.
There is nothing Apollonian about Warren's aesthetic: she makes raw, massy, earthbound works that hark back to the primordial gloop from which humanity once emerged and which
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It’s no wonder artists need government support now.
An “artist” that Ayn Rand might have invented...
I’m supposing that picture is the raw material with which she intends to mold, chisel or form in some way to make an object of art.
I used to be interested in Art. Started studying it in school too... then I took a painting calss and a requirment was to go to the local museum to see a ‘renowned artsts’ work then on display.
It was the biggest collection of childish crap I could ever remember seeing and I told the teacher so. He said somethign to the effect that “his politics were what mattered”
I asked what the hell his political ideas had to do with the crayonscribbles I saw portrayed as ‘art’ and he looked like he honestly could not understand my question.
Looking at this “artists” work makes me wonder just how far left she is.
Looks like what is left over after the grandkids have been at Grandma’s house for the weekend.
That’s a sculpture you did of your Mother-in-Law?
It isn’t pure genius. Satisfied?
Well...now former MIL.
Nope. That's a completed work, titled "Masculine World".
No further speculation needed on why Ms. Warren's "art" tends to be "sexually charged" and features bits of "female anatomy".
Man, that is genius!!
Not exactly the Winged Victory of Samothrace, is it?
Just because you can put together S curves and C curves in a shape that opens at the top doesn’t mean that is is art, just S curves and C curves that open at the top.
Compositional garbage.
Um, maybe when she uses the lump of detritus she’s massed there, then she’ll have something of an ‘artsy’ nature. Say she doesn’t fire the clay? ... Well, this pile of ‘do over’ clay is probably why ... ‘waste not want not’
OH! I forgot my sarcasm tag.
Well, these phonies may well be geniuses at getting the government to subsidize a load of BS and silly fake academics to praise their “work”.
Figures of fantasy emulation,Warren's sculptures make successes of their 'short-comings': malformed hands, or slight weight problem are things to be celebrated; and their shoes are always amazing. Warren's women are ravishing just the way they are. If their confident, over-the-top sexuality seems a little dirty, that's because it is -- literally. They're entirely made of clay.
Warren's a genius all right, but her genius is "sales."
Is that a coprolite?
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