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Gina Beavers
Gina Beavers (born 1974) is an American artist based in the New York area.Museum of Modern ArtGina Beavers, The Life I Deserve Exhibitions, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2023. She first gained attention in the early 2010s for thickly painted, relief-like acrylic images of food, cosmetics techniques and bodybuilders Appropriation (art), appropriated from Instagram snapshots and selfies found using hashtags such as #foodporn, #sixpack and #makeuptutorial.Griffin, Jonathan"Body Work: The relief paintings of Gina Beavers,"''Frieze'', May 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2023.Shultz, OliverGina Beavers ''MoMA Magazine'', July 18, 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2023. Her later work has continued to recombine these recurrent subjects, as well as explore memes, irreverent conflations of genres or art history and kitsch, identity, fandom and celebrity-worship.Smith, Roberta''The New York Times'', October 8, 2020, p. C6. Retrieved March 27, 2023.Schaar, Elise"Gina Beavers, Carl Kostyál,"''Artforum'', Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates and is the capital of the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. It was a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political influence on the European continent—particularly Ancient Rome. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
