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Lecture Series | Philip Brophy: Colour Me Dead at The Potter

Image via The Potter | Philip Brophy, frame from Colour Me Dead—Chapter 5: The Hungry Vagina, 2013, synchronized high-definition animation displayed on 3 monitors, sound, 6 minutes. © Courtesy the artist

Philip Brophy | Colour Me Dead: Art, sex and psychosis – an illustrated lecture series Philip Brophy has examined more than 3,000 artworks to trace how the nude has historically been posed, lit, depicted, rendered and transformed, he will present a series of illustrated lectures based on the source paintings of his current exhibition and forthcoming book. Brophy asserts that ‘from Pablo Picasso’s grotesque shapes to Jackson Pollock’s splattered landscapes to Andy Warhol’s mortician’s gaze to Yves Klein’s exploitative anthropometries, modern artists have flirted with violent depictions of the body, decimating the…