breaking down the corpse in art
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all manner of the macabre.
d_composition is an art historical take on the body hereafter. Formed in the petri-dish of visual culture and death, it’s aimed at those who rubberneck for anything morbidly curious.
Amongst these hoardings, you’ll find hot takes on art with a dark sensibility, from ages ago til now and my latest fixations which are usually death of goth adjacent media.
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Jenny Saville attends to the flesh in thick lashings of oil paint. She relishes in the perception of the human body, mainly painting monumental self-portraits, nudes, fleshy women who counter the male gaze. Still is one of few images to render post-mortem flesh in her oeuvre.
silueta
Part-performance, part-land-art Ana Mendieta’s Silueta series is a collection of ephemeral landscape interventions captured in photographs. She creates imprints of her ‘body’ from earth, blood, flowers, leaves, sticks, stones, fire, gunpowder, fireworks, candles and cloth.