Luchita Hurtado obituary

Artist described as a ‘hot discovery’ at the age of 97 after a long, creative career conducted largely out of sightIn 1969 Luchita Hurtado started her “I Am” series of paintings. Self-portraits of a kind, they offer the artist’s naked body from her own standing viewpoint, radically foreshortened. We see pyramid-like breasts, the hillock of a belly, a mountainous knee – a landscape, smooth and sandy yellow. The inclusion of feet, and hands lighting a cigarette