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A 4 page paper which examines how artists have incorporated the body into art in different ways. The artists and work examined are Jackson Pollock's "Number 1 (1950)," Chris Burden's "Doorway to Heaven (1973)", and Arahmaiani's "Dayang Sumbi Refuses Status Quo (1999)." Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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body of the artist and the art. In recent years there has been the growth of performance artists who generally give performances of their art that uses their body, and
sometimes the audience as well. The following paper examines the role of the body in three different artists and their work. The paper examines Jackson Pollocks "Number 1 (1950)," Chris
Burdens "Doorway to Heaven (1973)", and Arahmaianis "Dayang Sumbi Refuses Status Quo (1999)." The Body and Art Jackson Pollock was perhaps one of the first artists, or famous artists,
to use his body in painting on a canvas. He had abandoned the paint brush and instead started utilizing the movements of his body through dripping and throwing and essentially
maneuvering the paint in large amounts with his body, not a brush. Now, while many may not imagine that what Pollock did was not that different than using a brush,
for he was still just applying paint to the canvas surface, his work was seen as very profound for he abandoned the brush which essentially cut much of the middle
man, so to speak, of the painting process bringing the painter in closer contact with the paint and the canvas. One piece is titled Number 1 or Lavender Mist:.
It is a painting that "attests to the artists pure virtuosity of paint handling. One can trace his rhythmic movements in the long arcs, staccato dribbles, or coagulated pools of
color that accrue into a rich, shimmering interlace" (National Gallery of Art). Pollock often spoke of actually "being in his paintings, left very literal traces of his presence in the
multiple handprints at the upper edges of the canvas" (National Gallery of Art). Pollock did this for he was primarily a man of his times, a time when Picasso
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