Schneemann Tag

To have fun the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition and film screenings, we take a have a look at among the artist’s most shocking and haunting work Pioneering multidisciplinary artist and feministic icon Carolee Schneemann continues to encourage generations of artists. Known for her potent artworks exploring female sexuality and subjectivity, human suffering, objectification and rather more, Schneemann began within the Nineteen Fifties primarily as a painter before turning to performance art and photography as a rejection of what she perceived as this poisonous macho heroism of up to date painting.  Born in 1939, she got here of age at the peak of abstract expressionism – a movement described by art critic Marcia Brennan because the...