Thursday, March 4, 2010
Baring it at the Opera House
When I was in college a required class for my degree was Life Drawing, yes the class where you draw naked people. We were able to get a nude model for exactly 2 days of class and that was it. We quite literally couldn't pay anyone to pose nude for our class so we spent the semester drawing random clothed students. Not exactly the life drawing experience you expect. If only we had the power of Spencer Tunick who once again has no trouble getting hundreds of volunteers to strip down in the name of art. This time the location is the Sydney Opera House. Tunick is an installation artist who has been documenting the nude figure in photographs and film since the early 90's and up until about 199
4 he was focusing on the nude figure on an individual bases. Then he made the switch to doing large groups of naked bodies in various places around the world. Some locations include Barcelona, Cleveland, Buffalo, Mexico city and The Great Wall of China.I love the look of the mass nudes they blend together and take on a different form. You aren't just looking at a bunch of naughty bits but small uniform shapes that come together, umm let's say merge together to reshape the landscape. I love the concept and look forward to seeing the next location that gets covered in nudity. Hey, that's an oxymoron.
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Woah! I've never heard of this guy, but I'm google-ing him for sure! Cool post!