Dennis Oppenheim was an artist that came out of the conceptual movement. His early work was associated both with performance/body art and the early earthworks/land art movement in the mid to late 1960's. He cut lines in ice, snow, dirt, fields, etc. to create various images. Later on in his career he began doing some work with body art. In 1968 he used his body as a piece of art by lying in the sun for five hours with an open book lying on his chest. In the 1980's he began to experiment with machine works and created large-scale public displays. Dennis Oppenheim has kind of done a little bit of everything when it comes to art, from the ephemeral art to installations to public sculptures and even some architecture.
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