From phallic sculptures from prehistory to contemporary erotic photographs apart from censorship, sex has always been a prolific source of inspiration for art. A near-essential ingredient, so much so that some artists have taken the thing literally. Thus was born the idea of making art with your genitals. Rather than simply representing sex, why not integrate your own genitals into the work, using them as a creative instrument? Let’s take a quick tour of the people who make art with their genitals. Literally.
Pricasso, painter with his penis
On AVN, you can read an interview with Pricasso, the man who creates paintings using his dick as a brush. Pricasso has been practising this art since 2003. He first started in private. He then began performing at erotic clubs, erotic exhibitions and adult shows. And he is now world-famous.
Translation of an excerpt, in which he explains his technique for making art with his genitals:
“First, I grab my testicles and dip them in a paint pot, in order to cover them in flesh-coloured paint, which I apply to the centre of the canvas. I then spread it evenly with my bottom, by slapping my bottom against the canvas and projecting my genitals outwards, as far as possible. That usually makes people laugh. I then dip my glans in clay-coloured paint, and draw the facial features, as precisely as possible, then colour the teeth with white paint. I paint the lips, then the eyes, which are very important to get right. Next, I paint the edges of the canvas by sliding it into the cleft of my bottom, which I call “the credit card reader”. Then I sign it with a brush, which I first insert into my urethra; this tends to make the blokes rather uncomfortable.”
As for his secret for keeping his dick erect for so long (I suppose a soft brush is harder to handle) :
And, by the way, does painting a canvas with your phallus cause irritation?
Pricasso also sells his works online on his website, where you can order a portrait accompanied by a video of its creation.
Shigeko Kubota and vagina painting
Granted, Pricasso is the undisputed inventor of penis painting. But long before him, a woman had already long since achieved the feat of painting with her sex. feat of painting with her sex. In 1965, at the Perpetual Fluxus Festival, Japanese artist Shigeko Kubota performed a piece titled “Vagina Painting”. In it, she paints in red on a canvas laid on the floor, with a brush inserted in her vagina. Or perhaps attached to her underwear at the crotch, we don’t really know.
“Vagina Painting” is seen as a feminist response to the works of Pollock (creator of the “dripping” technique, which involves painting using drips and splashes) and Klein (at the origin of the famous patented blue, a slew of entirely blue monochrome canvases, and the “anthropometries”, women’s imprints in oil paint on canvas – reading the Wikipedia article about the latter, I thought they must have had some brilliant drugs back then). back then)
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De l’art et du sang menstruel
Pour faire de l’art avec son sexe, on peut aussi mettre en scène les substances produites par le sexe en question. Notamment, le sang menstruel. Mais si la peinture du bout de la bite, c’est plutôt pour faire rire le public, l’art à base de sang menstruel, quant à lui, s’associe souvent à des revendications féministes.
Judy Chicago et sa Menstruation Bathroom, la pionnière La première artiste moderne à avoir fait figurer du sang menstruel dans une œuvre estJudy Chicago
Menstruation Bathroom
Très très blanche et propre et désodorisée. Désodorisée à l’exception du sang, la seule chose que l’on ne peut pas cacher. Notre ressenti quant à nos propres menstruations est notre ressenti lorsque nous voyons son image devant nous
. L’exposition, dont la visite n’a été permise qu’aux femmes le premier jour, a ensuite été ouverte au public. Elle a été refaite en 1995.
Beauty in Blood, l’écoulement du sang menstruel en photos De novembre 2012 à août 2013, tous les mois, avec l’aide de son partenaire Rob, Jen Lewis a récupéré et photographié son sang menstruel, afin de réaliser le projetBeauty in Blood
On her website, the artist champions the feminist approach of her project and explains the technical details of its creation. Translation of a few passages.
How she collects all that blood
How she pours it
How her partner takes the photos
Paños, bloodstained cloths in an exhibition
In 2013, in an exhibition called “Paños” (“cloths”, in Spanish), the Chilean artist Carina Úbeda, who is allergic to sanitary pads, decided to recycle the cloths she wears as menstrual protection périodique. Embroidered with words such as “Production” and “Destroyed”, 90 of these used cloths were hung from the ceiling. Rotten apples, symbolising ovulation, accompany them.
A portrait of a foetus painted with used tampons
In 2016, over nine months, Romanian artist Timi Páll worked on a portrait of a foetus, across nine juxtaposed canvases, one canvas per month. It is the project “The Diary of My Period”.
Painting with the anus: Keith Boadwee’s technique
The American transgressive artist Keith Boadwee has developed a rather strange way of painting. rather strange way of painting. strange. way. of. painting. painting. In fact, he fills his anus with paint using a kind of rubber heat pack connected to a catheter, then brings his backside close to the canvas, pushes, and… splatters. A bit like an enema, but in a coloured version, and it goes all over the place.
This technique was first used in 1995 in a series of works titled “Purple Squirt”. The artist then reused it in other creations. Among the most recent are poppies, which may have been painted with the anus… or not, mystery.
