Original sentence: Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953) is a South African artist and painter.Marlene Dumas was born in Cape Town, South Africa.She has also worked with students, finding that "teaching [is] a very important thing, and not only because I teach [the students] things, but also because we have a dialogue, and you see what you really want.She has said that her works are better appreciated as originals since many of her smaller sexual works are very intimate.She often uses reference material of polaroid photographs of her friends and lovers, whilst she also references magazines and pornographic material.She studied at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975 after which she emigrated to the Netherlands
Edited sentence: Dumas has also given art lectures internationally.Dumas studied at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975 after which she emigrated to the Netherlands.Her highly refined pictorial style includes distorted, simplified, and rough-edged images with a deeply personal mixture of painting and drawing.Many of the starting points for her work are polaroid photographs of her friends and lovers, whilst she also references magazines and pornographic material.Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas.Politics, racism, religion and sexuality—often in disturbing combinations- are the focus of many of her works.She has also been known to work with students, finding that "teaching [is] a very important thing, and not only because I teach [the students] things, but also because we have a dialogue, and you see what you really want.She remarks that her works are better appreciated as originals since many of her smaller sexual works are very intimate.The aim of her work is to show the relationships between art, female models and even pornography