Vanessa Beecroft- 4/21/15

Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian contemporary artist who works with photography, performance, drawing, and painting and sculpture. Beecrofts work generally works with conceptual and aesthetic concerns, which draws a lot of people into what she does. Her performance art is usually large scale and with nude females. Because of this her performances have been described as art, fashion, brilliant, terrible, evocative, provocative, disturbing, sexist and empowering. These events are recorded live, by photographs and videos. Generally she picks models that have the same face structure or body structure. Her point with these is to make them more close to paintings, she makes contemporary versions of the complex figurative compositions that have challenged painters from the Renaissance onwards. These pieces of hers are shown all over the world, opening in big cities like Paris and NYC. I don't really know how I feel about her work, its very strange but cool?