Boiled Beauty.

Contemporary Russian artist Andrei Molodkin has discovered a way to boil corpses into crude oil, from which he plans to turn into memorial sculptures.  These models follow in the line of the final taboo revolving around the idea of death common in todays art realm.

This form of art cannot truly be considered new because artists have been using human splinters to create works, such as Marc Quinn did when he created a study of his head from his frozen blood.  Is this the new direction that art is taking in contemporary times?  It really comments on the statement that art is life and life is art, but is there a necessity to actually involve human fractions to create meaningful and moving artwork?

There has not been much criticism on the art of boiled bodies, so the verdict is still up in the air on whether this is considered art or not by notable critics, but to read more on the process, you can follow this link.