She then ritualistically extracted a scroll of paper from her vagina while reading an excerpt of "Kitsch's Last Meal" from it. , Schneemann stood naked on a table and painted her body with mud. She sought to transform herself, as a female-identifying body, from objectivity to subjectivity a bold move in her time. , UCLA professor Amelia Jones quotes Schneeman's 1991 performance, in which she states "go back to the body, which is where all the splits in Western Culture occur." Considering herself a painter more so than a performance artist, Schneeman was particularly interested in "vitaliz(ing) the whole body as gesture in dimensional space" in her work. Is one of the preliminary artists who situated the body as an integral component in creating art, pioneering a movement that continues to pervade in contemporary art today. Influenced by the rise of scientific, psychological, philosophical, and anthropological research, artists turned to the body itself as a subject of interrogation in a way that it never had before: not as a passive subject to be represented, but as an active participant in the creation process. However, in the 20th century, artists began to shift the way they thought about representing the human form. The human body has always been a central subject of artistic rendering, ranging from Ancient Greek kouros statues to paintings of sensual nudes and portraits of aristocratic families.
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