Artland’s Daily Art Pick
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Title | Gold Butter Dog 1, Guggenheim Crown, 2003
Media | Gold Silicon Rubber
Dimensions | 35¼ x 32 x 27 in. (89.5 x 81.3 x 68.6 cm.)
Artist
American, b. 1945, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, based in Los Angeles, CA.
Paul McCarthy is recognized for his provocative, some would say tasteless, performances, multi-media installations, and sculptures that irreverently fuse high and low culture in their biting but humorous critique of American mythology and accepted societal norms. Santa Claus porn videos, Hummel figurine parodies, and chocolate butt plugs are among McCarthy’s most well known pieces. For Train, Mechanical (2003-09), McCarthy created a pair of larger-than-life animated sculptures of George W. Bush mounting pigs from behind. “I’m interested in caricatures—from Miss Piggy to Popeye to Santa Claus—that are cultural fabrications,” McCarthy explains. “Santa is one that I’ve hung on to longer, that I repeat more. There’s the whole thing of Christmas and consumption and commodity, and its relationship to capitalism and Western culture and Americana. The character itself is this roly-poly patriarch with a beard—almost a godlike figure.”
(text via artsy.net)