Marc_Quinn_‘Self’

Marc Quinn ‘Self’ Marc Quinn ‘Self’ 1991; size 81.9 x 24.75 inches ‘Self’ is a blood head sculpture. The art movement, which Marc Quinn belongs to, is modern art. The piece Self is a very modern piece it was made in 1991. The first thing that strikes me about this piece is that it is unusual! The first thought that came into my head was how much blood did they use' And had anyone ever created anything like this before' When I gathered my research there was different opinions about the amount of blood used to create Marc Quinn’s’ ‘self’, some authors said he had used 8 pints and others said 9 pints. His own blood (extracted over a five-month period) into a silicone model of his head then placed inside a refrigerated and transparent Perspex cube. According to some of the research Marc Quinn’s sculptures perhaps more than any others have come to stand for wilful sensitivity to the body and mortality fostered by British art in the 90s. The literature believes Quinn has chosen to use his own body as a primary source, saying “ the self is what one knows best and least at the same time, casting the body marc, quinn, art, self, blood, work, piece, materials, head, about, research, body, believes, using, sculpture, said, refrigerated, quinn’s, pints, people, own, others, one, movement, modern, interested, ideas, first, different, create, communicate, 1991, ‘shock’, world