Editing Body fluids in art (section)

== Examples ==

=== Blood ===

* [[New York City|New York]] artist [[Vincent Castiglia]] uses his own blood to make paintings,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-10-05 |title=Using his own blood, New York artist paints "Resurrection" exhibit |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-art-bloodart-exhibit-idUSBRE8931HG20121005 |access-date=2022-07-13}}</ref> and used it to make the artwork on the [[Electric guitar|guitar]] of [[thrash metal]] musician [[Gary Holt (musician)|Gary Holt]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wise |first=Lauren |date=2016-01-27 |title=Axe Painted Blood: An Interview with the Artist Who Drew Lucifer in Blood on Gary Holt's Guitar |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/vincent-castiglia-blood-painting/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]] |language=en}}</ref>
* ''[[The Anguished Man]]'', an allegedly [[List of haunted paintings|haunted painting]] by an unknown artist, contains the artist's blood in its paint, according to its owner.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rigney |first=Todd |date=2015-09-07 |title=The Anguished Man, the World's Most Haunted Painting, Is Not for Sale |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/124421/the-anguished-man-the-worlds-most-haunted-painting-is-not-for-sale/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Dread Central]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[The Flaming Lips]] released a limited run of [[Phonograph record|vinyl records]] of the 2012 album ''[[The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends|Heady Fwends]]'' containing the blood of the musicians involved, sold for $2,500 each.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pelly |first=Jenn |date=2012-05-04 |title=Flaming Lips Blood Vinyl: 10 Copies, $2500, Features Ke$ha, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave, Chris Martin Blood |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/46404-flaming-lips-blood-vinyl-10-copies-2500-features-keha-erykah-badu-nick-cave-chris-martin-blood/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Breiham |first=Tom |date=2012-05-04 |title=Flaming Lips Bloody Vinyl Costs $2,500 |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1022742/flaming-lips-bloody-vinyl-costs-2500/photo/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Stereogum]] |language=en}}</ref>

=== Urine ===

* ''[[Piss Christ]]'', a controversial 1987 photograph by American photographer [[Andres Serrano]], depicts a small plastic [[crucifix]] submerged in a small glass tank full of the artist's [[urine]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Jones (journalist) |date=2011-04-18 |title=Andres Serrano's Piss Christ is the original shock art |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/18/andres-serrano-piss-christ-shock |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-04-18 |title=Controversial artwork Piss Christ vandalised in France |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13124769 |access-date=2022-07-13}}</ref>
* ''PISSED'', a glass tube containing 200 gallons of the urine of Canadian [[transgender]] artist [[Cassils (artist)|Cassils]], was made in 2017 as a protest against a decision by the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]] to revoke an [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]] executive order which guaranteed that transgender students could use restrooms that corresponded with their gender identity. It is currently on exhibition at the [[Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Michelson |first=Noah |date=2017-09-16 |title=The Powerful Reason Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cassils-monumental-pissed-urine_n_59bbeacee4b0edff971b88f4 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[HuffPost]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2017-09-29 |title=What Is the Most Iconic Artwork of the 21st Century? 14 Art Experts Weigh In |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/iconic-artworks-21st-century-1092800 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Artnet News]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Feces ===

* ''[[Artist's Shit]]'', a 1961 artwork by Italian artist [[Piero Manzoni]], consists of 90 [[Steel and tin cans|tin cans]] reportedly filled with {{convert|30|g|oz|abbr=off}} of his feces.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title='Artist's Shit', Piero Manzoni, 1961 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/manzoni-artists-shit-t07667 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Tate (gallery)|Tate]] |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Embuscado |first=Rain |date=2016-05-02 |title=Survey a Century of Human Waste in Art |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/human-waste-art-duchamp-cattelan-484562 |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=[[Artnet News]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Breast milk ===

* In the work ''All You Can Feel'', the artist [[Sarah Schönfeld|Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld]] sprinkles exposed photo negatives with hormones or endogenous substances such as breast milk and pharmacological substances such as the contraceptive pill.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld – Schering Stiftung |url=https://scheringstiftung.de/de/projektraum/sarah-ancelle-schoenfeld/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-10-08 |title=NATURAL BORN: SARAH SCHOENFELD |url=https://tissuemagazine.com/story/natural-born-sarah-schoenfeld/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=TISSUE Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Human Fat ===

* ''Wenming zhu (Civilization Pillar)'' by artist duo [[Sun Yuan & Peng Yu]]. The work resembles a classical stone column, but it is in fact entirely composed of layers of congealed, gleaming human fat that was collected from plastic surgery clinics. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Sun Yuan and Peng Yu |url=https://theallureofmatter.org/artists/sun-yuan-and-peng-yu/ |access-date=2024-10-03 |website=The Allure of Matter |language=en}}</ref>