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Untitled #414

Cindy Sherman2003

The Feminist Institute

The Feminist Institute
New York, NY, United States

Sherman's series of clown images feature riotous makeup, flamboyant costumes and digitally produced backgrounds of synthetic colors and patterns. Behind the sheer visual lushness and latent humor/horror, lies Sherman's interest in revealing the underlying pathos of the hysterically happy or intensely nasty clown image; the sadness of the character behind the greasepaint.

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