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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“Not exactly the Winged Victory of Samothrace, is it?”
Actually, it’s all the parts around that statue that got cut out.
Winged Victory of Samothrace, one of the most beautiful statues of all, IMHO.
Oh... it *is* pure genius. She's figured a way to take an ordinary lump of clay and get somebody to give her lots and lots of money for it. That's what takes genius, and I'm sure it beats working for a living. :-)
I see they put it on a pedastal worthy of its genius.
Nothing portrays and predicts the secular West’s empty, cold, foul, nihilistic future better than modern, western art.
Ooohh..What an absolutely GEORGEOUS hunk of clay!!!!
I'll give $10, no..$15 million for it.
Got any more?
Honestly, the art critics that like this crap need to be taken out back and shot.
There, fixed it.
lol!
Hitler said something similar about such art...
"Works of art that cannot be understood but need a swollen set of instructions to prove their right to exist and find their way to neurotics who are receptive to such stupid or insolent nonsense will no longer openly reach the German people..."
Source: Shirer "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, page 244. Part of the Speech of Hitler on German Art, July 18, 1937
He then proceeded to remove the works of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and others from German galleries and museums.
That said, Warren isn't of that caliber IMO.
FMCDH(BITS)
Ha, my thoughts were traveling in the same direction.
Heaven help us, the reviewer is serious. Someone please tell me it’s satire.
My recommendation is; .45ACP
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