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In 1981, Rivers was a well-established figure in the New York art scene, having transitioned from the "Bad Boy" of Abstract Expressionism to a pioneer of what would become Pop Art. Growing represents his experimentation with new media (video) during a period when he was also navigating significant personal changes, including a new relationship with artist Daria Deshuk.

Growing 1981 is a controversial documentary by the American artist Larry Rivers that explored his daughter's puberty. Archives And Privacy In The Age Of Accessibility - AVP growing 1981 larry rivers

No Rivers review is complete without noting his occasional slickness. At times, Growing seems too comfortable, too knowing. The “messy” passages can feel calculated, unlike the raw struggle of de Kooning’s Excavation or the deadpan mystery of Rivers’ own earlier Washington Crossing the Delaware . Some critics might argue that the plant-as-metaphor is too easy, a bit of midcentury poetic thinking that by 1981 had grown tired. In 1981, Rivers was a well-established figure in

Rivers was a poet as much as a painter. Scrawled across the lower right quadrant, in his infamous, jittery handwriting, are lines of verse. They read: "Growing / is the mistake / the body keeps making / until it stops." This dark, elegiac text reframes the entire painting. Growing is not a miracle; it is an accumulation of errors—wrinkles, scars, fat, memory. Archives And Privacy In The Age Of Accessibility

: At the time, Rivers reportedly justified the project to his teenage daughter by telling her that her "intellectual development had been arrested" for not understanding the artistic merit of the work.