Bruce Nauman knelt in a fibreglass mold for a work whose title claims to depict the knees of "five famous artists" in this material.
It's not latex rubber, but colorful layers of this material are applied on top of lozenge-shaped wall pieces in works such as Embryo by Lynda Benglis. Clothed legs made of this material stick out of gallery walls in the characteristic works of Robert Gober. Bruce Nauman knelt in a fibreglass mold for a work whose title claims to depict the knees of "five famous artists" in this material. The Phillips Collection's Where have you gone Â– where are you going? is one of the light bulb-illuminated rooms that Wolfgang Laib lined with this substance. Jacques Lipchitz's bronze "transparents" are 20th century products of a (*) process in which a model of this material is covered in a mould, which is then filled with molten metal, a technique named for this "lost" substance. Jasper John's flag paintings were made with newspaper collage and pigment mixed with this substance, a medium called encaustic. For 10 points, life-like sculptures made of what material are displayed at Madame Tussauds?
It's not latex rubber, but colorful layers of this material are applied on top of lozenge-shaped wall pieces in works such as Embryo by Lynda Benglis.
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