The Artist Is Present

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This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the world's premiere museums is, for any living artist, the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more - it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: 'But why is this art?' A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Marina Abramovic is an artists who a a very unique style. She mainly does live performances in a studio or stage. In a documentry I watched about her called The artist is present she did a live performance in The Museum of Modern Art in New York. In her work she sat in a large room in silence everyday the museum was open for three months. In her performance there was a chair in front of her which members of the audience where able to sit down on and look at her. The museum had a retrospective of her work and at the end you could go into the room where she was. The point was of most of her work is to make people look at themselves and there sroundings.

personaly I like her work its unusual and intersting she pushes the boundries of art and works in her own box of possibilities. I think some of her work is a little weird and can be hard to understand it but it never fails to draw attention and leave you thinking.