<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7ce3ab88-6015-4203-a01b-b11d0ae04833/1D3D610A-76E4-4C86-BA24-F2BD62EAA37E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/10/marc-quinn-frozen-blood-sculpture" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/10/marc-quinn-frozen-blood-sculpture" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/10/marc-quinn-frozen-blood-sculpture"><P>Anyone of a squeamish disposition may want to avoid a certain room at the National Portrait Gallery, which today displayed its latest, £300,000, acquisition: 10 pints of the artist Marc Quinn's frozen blood in a self-portrait cast of his head, sitting zen-like on a concealed refrigeration unit.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/10/marc-quinn-frozen-blood-sculpture"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/17ED5140-21C2-4596-A9DC-445B1DAD56E7" alt="Artist Marc Quinn and a model of his own head in frozen blood" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/10/marc-quinn-frozen-blood-sculpture"><P>Self (2006) is one of Quinn's "blood heads", among Brit Art's most striking images. Quinn said: "For me, it was always about making the ultimate portrait that had the form of me but that was also made of me. It is sculpture pushed to the absurd, logical extreme."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/10/marc-quinn-frozen-blood-sculpture"><P>This is the fourth blood head, made using blood removed by Quinn's doctor a pint at a time, every six weeks. The artist intends to make a head every five years to document his ageing. Not that it is entirely accurate. "Life casting does make you look older," said a far fresher-faced Quinn.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D3D610A-76E4-4C86-BA24-F2BD62EAA37E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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