Bruce Nauman

Art Make-Up No 3: Green
1967–1968

A shirtless person with a dark, possibly muddy substance smeared on their face and body, peering through a heart-shaped opening on their face with one eye visible. The background is nondescript and the image has a vintage, grainy quality.

A shirtless person with a dark, possibly muddy substance smeared on their face and body, peering through a heart-shaped opening on their face with one eye visible. The background is nondescript and the image has a vintage, grainy quality.

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Date
1967–1968

Classification
Installations

Medium
Four-screen 16mm film installation, color, silent, 10 min., transferred to video

Accession number
2001.349

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film and Video Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

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Bruce Nauman
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