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Paul McCarthy is an American contemporary artist working across media in performance, sculpture, and film. Inspired by American popular culture, lewd sexual innuendo, and the work of Joseph Beuys, McCarthy constructs complicated critiques of consumerism and art. “I had this thing about exposing the interior of the body,” the artist has said ...
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McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later continued to study at the University of Utah until 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a BFA in painting. In 1972 he studied film, video, and art at the University of Southern California ...
- August 4, 1945 (age 78), Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Feb 17, 2021 · An Artist Exposing Fascism Through Provocation. Paul McCarthy has spent his career cultivating a visual language of depravity and scathing critique. After half a century, we still can’t turn ...
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Paul McCarthy is widely considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artists. Born in 1945, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, he first established a multi-faceted artistic practice, which sought to break the limitations of painting by using unorthodox materials such as bodily fluids and food.
Aug 6, 2020 · Paul Mc Carthy's career, as Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff notes in Phaidon's Contemporary Artist Series book on the artist , "defies easy categorization". Along with a few contemporaries such as Bruce Nauman and David Hammons, the Californian artist has relentlessly pursued a far-ranging, almost nomadic approach to making art, embodying a principle of perverse admixture, where diverse ...
Paintings. For several decades, Paul has been a committed painter, finding his work on canvas both a respite from the world and another outlet for his drive to create. PaulMcCartney.com.
Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Wikidata Q221732 View or edit the ...
