Question

The artist karen finley, who had her nea grant revoked after she smeared her naked body with chocolate was working in the genre of

Answer 1

The correct answer is performance art.
Performance art usually involves the performer's body in all sorts of situations - in this case, the performer literally used her own body as the 'canvas' for her art because she wanted to prove some artistic point. She is a controversial artist, and not everybody understood her.