Although Matthew Barney works in sculpture, video, animation, photography, installations, drawing, and performance art, Barney considers himself a sculptor. Barney studied at Yale... planning to major in medicine, but fell in love with the arts. He also worked as a model. His best-known work is a film series called The Cremaster Cycle. Barney has done many interesting performances pieces such as one entitled, Drawing Restraint 13: The Instrument of Surrender in which Barney dressed up like General MacArthur and walked the plank into a giant vat of petroleum jelly. Odd? Well... yeah.
To be honest, a lot of Matthew Barney's work really freaks me out. He dresses up for many of his pieces as this strange, red-headed, big-nosed, crazy hair-styled character and poses eccentrically. All his performance art pieces are extremly odd actually. Whether he has hugely extended fingernails or he's making out in petroleum jelly... it's just plain weird.
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