Growing 1981 Larry Rivers [new] -

: Accompanying the visual documentation, Rivers interrogated his daughters about their feelings regarding their bodies and burgeoning sexuality.

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Rivers paints the plant not as a pretty still life, but as a straining muscle. The stem bulges like a bicep flexing. The veins of the leaves are drawn with the same urgency as the capillaries in a medical textbook. Rivers is asking: Is it growing, or is it struggling? The stem bulges like a bicep flexing

: In recent years, his daughter Emma Tamburlini has publicly stated she felt extremely uncomfortable and did not consent to the filming. : In recent years, his daughter Emma Tamburlini

Look closely at the brushwork. In the 1950s, Rivers had a lush, almost de Kooning-esque touch. By 1981, that touch has turned aggressive and dry. There are sections of Growing where the paint seems scraped off rather than applied. There are areas of raw, unpainted canvas—gaps in the "growth." This formal decision suggests that growing is not a smooth process; it is full of holes, erasures, and false starts.