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Exploring unconventional painting materials

Andy Warhol, Oxidation Painting, 1978 used urine to create an image.



Andy Warhol piss paintings [Painting] At: https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/andy-warhol-piss-paintings (Accessed 16.07.2021)



Piero Manzoni canned his shit in jars.



Piero Manzoni - Merda d'artista, 1961 [Object] At: https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/andy-warhol-piss-paintings (Accessed 16.07.2021)



Vincent Castiglia paints with his blood.



“In January 1972, Acconci staged one of the decade’s most notorious performance art pieces at the Sonnabend Gallery in SoHo. Gallery visitors entered to find the space empty except for a low wood ramp. Hidden below the ramp, out of sight, Acconci masturbated, basing his fantasies on the movements of the visitors above him.” (The MET, Seedbed, Vito Acconci At: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266876 (Accessed 16.07.2021)




Vito Acconci, Seedbed, 1972 [Photography] At: https://artisttitledate.tumblr.com/post/69070176155/vito-acconci-seedbed-1972-acconci (Accessed 16.07.2021)



“Another artist who has used semen is Antony Gormley, while Matthew Barney extrudes all kinds of strange stuff in The Cremaster Trilogy, most of it probably synthetic but we can't be sure.” (The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, Wed 14 May 2014 16.12 BST At: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/may/14/lood-semen-tears-artists-bodily-fluids-rose-lynn-fisher (Accessed 16.07.2021)


Keith Boadwee


Keith Boadwee [Photography] At: https://keithboadwee.com/artwork/3899263.html (Accessed 16.07.2021)


And there are women artists who work with menstruation blood.


Of course, many artists tend to move away from the stereotypes of "art materials". This is interesting from the point of view of criticism of the existing one. But I like one thought from The Guardian that is a lot of truth in my opinion.


“Yet for all this passionate literalism, the most powerful tears in modern art are not "real" at all, nor do they look it. Picasso's Weeping Woman in Tate Modern, who cries an allegorical river of pain and redemption, proves you don"t need to actually cry, masturbate or bleed to be a great artist.” (The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, Wed 14 May 2014 16.12 BST At: https://www.theguardian.com /artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/may/14/lood-semen-tears-artists-bodily-fluids-rose-lynn-fisher (Accessed 16.07.2021)

Here I want to show that I am aware of the flight of consciousness and a creative approach to materials. Therefore, I choose deep work with what I have already chosen. It is even interesting to check the "strength" of my paper - whether it can be used as a material without any paint. And since I use newspapers the most, it's a great off-the-shelf tool for colouristic art.

I selected the newspaper sheets by colour so that the general themes on the canvas were obtained. The result is a mixture of poetry and everyday life. The newspaper paint ran out, and it was unpleasant. So I just combined the original colours with a spray. This enhanced the colour but left open surfaces of the newspaper to read.



I like the result, but how new is the approach?! I just know that this has already been done, but I do not want to do research, so as not to deviate from my motivation and ideas. I better will research colour fields artists.




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