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**Ida Applebroog**
media type="youtube" key="Glwie8CuupM" height="385" width="480" Ida Applebroog is from the Bronx, Ny and attended New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and then later the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She moved to San Diego and taught for a while, but returned to New York and has been showing her paintings there for decades. Her paintings take on sort of a deliberate amateur approach. She returned to New York after her time in California and was unsure how to re-enter the art world, so she began creating drawings which she put into small pamphlets. These simple drawings have evolved into what she now creates, while still maintaining a simplified approach. She also creates some sculptures that are crude. She thinks that art has to be ¨too much or too little¨, so she leaves her pieces raw and enjoys putting them on a pedastool because she believes that the action of displaying them turns them into something different. She photographs the sculptures and alters them to make them uncomfortable. She is not concerned with beauty, just with creating what is necessary to her. She is very against labels and categorization, especially gender-based (Don´t tell her I said so, but a lot of her comments sound very feminist even though she claims to be anti-feminism.For example, she made up her last name because she couldn´t stand having a name that came from a man.) I think that Ida´s Applebroog´s paintings are, for lack of a better word, cute. They have a childish charm to them, even though some address more mature themes. I am not so fond of the photographs and sculptures becauseI find them uncomfortable, but that is her purpose, so I think she accomplishes that very well. I think it is very impressive how old she is, and yet she is still learning to use new technology in her art and showing new work. user:Sarahjanejenkins