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Marilyn A Minter

Marilyn A. Minter (Born 1948) is active/lives in New York, Louisiana.  Marilyn Minter is known for Provacative pop images, modernist figure and mural painting.

Based in New York City, Marilyn Minter is a painter whose work ranges from fashion illustration to pornography and in many cases, provokes a shocked or repelled reaction in the viewer.   Many of her paintings, usually enamel on metal, are based on her photographs, with themes of commercial influences on femininity and the tragedy of the 'cult of beauty' on its victims---the art of style where everything goes wrong.  On the surface these paintings seem to be commercial fashion spreads, but problems are immediately apparent in the subjects such as way too much hair, signs of self mutilation, strange make up, gender confusion, and cannibalistic mouths.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art sponsored an exhibition of her work in the summer of 2005, and in the promotional material, her work was described as examining "the relationships between the body, photography, and painting, tapping into cultural anxieties about sexuality and desire."  (Many of he   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2911 characters.]  Artist bio

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