<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=2015.27&output=rss2 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:41:24 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Bubble Bath]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2969

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Creator

Frank C. Moore

Title

Bubble Bath

Date Created

1990

Spatial Coverage

212.1 cm x 252.7 cm (83 1/2 in. x 99 1/2 in.)

Identifier

2015.27

Medium

Oil on feather board with metal attachments and copper pipe frame

Description

When Frank Moore died of AIDS in 2002, in his New York Times obituary, art critic Roberta Smith characterized him as “a painter and AIDS activist whose jewel-like allegories brought beauty and bite to themes of scientific progress, environmental pollution and the medical establishment.”

Bubble Bath is one of Moore’s most ambitious allegorical tableaus. The title invokes a relaxing soak in the tub, but the painting is littered with allusions to AIDS and conjures the fear over the exchange of body fluids prevalent in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. In an interview, Moore described the work as “a toilet turning into a brain with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions in it, AZT vials and specific references to sexual acts, safe and unsafe.” An artist and an activist, Moore was a founding member of the Visual AIDS group in New York, the collective of artists who first created the red AIDS awareness ribbon that became a symbol of compassion for those suffering from the disease.

Rights Holder

Gift of The Gesso Foundation, 2015

Date

New York City, 1953 - 2002, New York City

Type

painting

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