„Rembrandt\'s Anatomy Lesson”, 1969 (1-50/105)

The happening was organized for the first time in Nuremberg in 1968 and was again repeated a year later, on January 24, 1969 in the Foksal Gallery. Here, just like in “Medusa Raft” and “Panoramic Sea Happening,” Kantor used a famous historical painting as a “ready-made object.” In this case it was Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Among the participants that played medics were hippies who enriched the reconstruction with the elements of their own modern look – long hair and Windsor glasses.

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