Scope and Contents This image is formed by rubberstamping the words kiss and smooch over each other with dense center slit-like image suggestive of a woman's pubis. Fuck Paintings Interview by Christina Voss for the online magazine, F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs (2011). Betty Tompkins paints gorgeous photorealistic works of art on a monumental scale, all explicit, detailed images of penetration, masturbation, and the female genitalia. Her first Fuck Painting was created back in 1969, and after a group show in the early 1970's, they were more or less left untouched by critics and dealers, seemingly due to their visual content. In 2003, the Centre Pompidou acquired Fuck Painting #1, and since then, there's been a new appreciation for the power, poignancy, and sheer beauty of her work. A note on their size: small works of art reproduce fairly well online, but there's no way to reproduce the impact of a monumental work of art here, so I'm going to ask you to imagine the size. Many of these canvases are larger...