Vanessa Beecroft - Conceptual Artist


	Vanessa Beecroft - Conceptual Artist
EddieIsSteady
8-27-2009 6:16 PM
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8-28-2009 2:16 AM
lollipop10
This is cool. Her second model sure does look like a Renaissance painting. Very interesting.
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Beecroft’s work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models (often nude). </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.artlies.com/photographs/vanessa-beecroft.html"><DIV class="entry-head"><DIV class="entry-meta"><DIV class="entry-author"><ADDRESS class="vcard author"><A title="View posts by Unknown Artist" class="url fn" href="http://www.artlies.com/author/admin/"></A></ADDRESS></DIV><SPAN class="meta-end"></SPAN>
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				<P><IMG width="580" height="386" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-347" title="vb62 23 dg vb" alt="vb62 23 dg vb" src="http://artlies.com/media/2009/02/vb62-23-dg-vb-580x386.jpg" /></P></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.artlies.com/photographs/vanessa-beecroft.html">At her performances, video recordings and photographs are made, to be exhibited as documentation of the performances, but also as separate works of art. The work and her conceptual approach is neither performance nor documentary, but something in between, and closer to Renaissance painting.
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The performances are existential encounters between models and audience, their shame and their expectations.</blockquote><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://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" 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.artlies.com/media/2009/02/white-madonna-with-twins.jpg" href="http://www.artlies.com/media/2009/02/white-madonna-with-twins.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.artlies.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlies.com/photographs/vanessa-beecroft.html">Each performance is made for a specific location and often references the political, historical, or social associations of the place where it is held.</blockquote><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://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" 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.artlies.com/media/2009/02/vb47377dr.jpg" href="http://www.artlies.com/media/2009/02/vb47377dr.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.artlies.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.artlies.com/photographs/vanessa-beecroft.html">Beecroft’s work is deceptively simple in its execution</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/50446428-2C2E-4385-BA1C-97A73140F468/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.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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