“Our connection to the flesh is, for better or worse, always with us. Our primary emotions ema
“Our connection to the flesh is, for better or worse, always with us. Our primary emotions emanate from that source and drive most other pursuits, art and politics among them. The flesh permits us to fully experience our common humanity. The canvas becomes the tender skin of fragile thoughts.” — Joan SemmelHappy birthday to Jewish Museum collection artist Joan Semmel, who turns 86 today. Since the 1970s, Semmel has been painting her own body to invert the Western artistic tradition in which the female nude is the passive object of a male gaze. Her 1978 self-portrait Sunlight is on view now in Scenes from the Collection. -- source link