Oral Presentation Outline

Matthew Barney

I. Matthew Barney's background

       a) Born in 1967 in San Francisco, California.

       b) Grew up in Boise, Idaho.

       c) Attented Yale University.

       b) First wanted to study plastic surgery, but after two semesters he changed to the art department.

II. Matthew Barney's art skills

       a) Sculpture, films, photography and drawings.

III. Matthew Barney's influences

       a) Bruce Nauman

       b) Vito Acconci

       c) Richard Serra when it came to body-based performance art.

IV. Matthew Barney's art styles

       a) Fuses sculptural installations with performance art and video.

       b) Foregrounds physical rigor of sport.

       c) Explores the limits of the body and sexuality.

       d) His works reflect his own past as an athlete.

       e) Barney appears in most of his works.

V. First Matthew Barney's work: The Drawing Restraint Series

       a) Barney uses his body.

       b) Barney uses his experiences on the football field.

       c) Restraints body to create drawings.

       d) It's mostly video and photography.

VI. Second Matthew Barney's work: The River of Fundament

       a) One of the most challenging works that Barney has ever done.

       b) His first major solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.

VII. Third Matthew Barney's work: Cremaster Cycle

       a) A series of five featured length films.

       b) Matthew Barney wrote, directed and acted in each film. 

       c) Includes sculpture, photographs, drawings and artist's books.

VIII. Last information about Matthew Barney

       a) Considers all the things he works with attracted to him, even if it disgusts him.

       b) Matthew Barney once said "My work is not for everyone" which I definitely agree on.

Sources:

1) https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/matthew-barney

2) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/16/matthew-barney-river-of-fundament-film