Thursday, 4 October 2012

Self Portrait made with own frozen Blood


This sounds very creepy to hear and may even get scary at the thought itself.But this raring to go artist would go to any extent to define art .Yes we are talking about Marc Quinn the man who feels that art is beyond the seamless boundaries  of imagination.The idea would make you haunt your dreams of  Quinn making  self portraits with own  frozen blood.Now that was really an unconventional way of art depiction.
Quinn believes that he is inspired to use unconventional materials in his art work  to illuminate Human life in his work.The physical body is subjected to mutability but the work of self depiction in this way of work would remain to be immortal. 
This bizzare art project by Marc Quinn in which he created a detailed mould of his face and took 4 to 5 liters of his own blood in a gap of  five to six months and used them on his portraits.He froze the blood collected and creates a creepy portrait by applying it on the face mould.The portraits are stored inside refrigerator at -15 degree celsius  to prevent the melting of frozen blood..Quinn wanted to express through this form of art work the continuous series of changes on his face that takes place and believes he is in the process  recording those changes like countenance,ageing etc by making such portraits .This is the true presentation of art and science  working together
The self portrait of frozen blood by Marc Quinn  done in 2006 was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery,England  on September 10,2009.

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