Marina Abramovic: Showcasing Her Artstyle

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Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic is a Serbian writer, filmmaker, performing artist, and philanthropist, born on November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, Serbia. She had an interest in art since childhood, and she enjoyed painting. In 1965, she joined the Academy of Fine Arts to study painting, but her reflexive consciousness led her into performance art. She was specifically interested in using her body to showcase art and spirituality. She enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, earning a post-graduate degree. She then went back to Serbia, where she was a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts at Novi Sad from 1973 to 1975.
While teaching at Novi Sad, she explored and implemented her first solo performances. She is known for her exceptional body style to display art. Her famous works include Rhythm Series, Works with Ulay, Cleaning the Mirror, Spirit Cooking, Balkan Baroque, Seven Easy Pieces, and The Artist Is Present. In Rhythm 10, she stabbed herself twenty times and tried to replicate the stabbing’s pain and sounds (Simoes and Passos). She believed that once you are in the right headspace during a performance, you can push your mind and body to achieve extraordinary things.
In Rhythm 5, her subjectivity led her to perform using a petroleum-drenched star that she lit on fire. Her motored consciousness guided her to push her body to endure smoke from the fire and low oxygen. She lost consciousness because of inadequate ...