Sarah Lucas is notoriously known as the bad girl of Brit Art.

... Sarah Lucas is notoriously known as the bad girl of Brit Art. Lucas has a reputation of having an aggressive stance, which can be seen in her many self-portraits. She is recognised by her trademark jeans, t-shirt and masculine boots, and defiant look upon her face and the constant smoke from a cigarette. Lucas's self portraits do not include words but the expressions that she uses give out an intense feeling of emotion. Her work often has an obvious message, which makes it easy to understand what she is saying. In the photograph "Human Toilet Revisited" 1999, it is clear of the message behind the image. Its obvious meaning is a normal shit morning, which many can relate to feeling the same as how Lucas looks- sitting curled upon the lowered toilet lid, smoking, deep in stressful thought. The symbolic meaning to this image is that life, equal to every morning,

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