Need controversial art for exam.

[Spinhorse]

Diego Rivera perhaps. He's a bit outdated tho (Mexican muralist - the one i'm thinking of is a mural he painted in the Rockefeller Center called "El hombre en el cruce de caminos" - the man at the crossroads. It featured a portrait of Lenin and was tore down)

 

[zepher171]

I'd say anything by H. R. Giger
For example - Birth Machine
http://idegen.tyrell.hu/archives/2009/02/birth_machine_2.jpg

 

[agge.se]

This one?
http://snyderstreasures.com/images/artworks/AHPerchtoldsdorgChurchCastleOANoFlash.jpg
Could be controversial of you spin it the right way.
The artis is

Spoiler

Hitler
http://www.your3dsource.com/images/hitlerart4.jpg.jpeg

Edit: mised that i vasent alowed to use img tags and coldent use the origninal image link to manny referanses to the artist put a link to that image in the spoiler tag.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Piss Christ by Andres Serano. It's a picture of a statue of the crucified Jesus in a bottle of the artist's own urine and blood.

It raised a hella lot of eyebrows back when it came out.

 

[thylasos]

Gustave Courbet's L'origine du monde, possibly?/

Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q.?

I mean, the impressionists were controversial and widely considered to produce primitivistic unfinished trash, within their lifetimes.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

If you're looking for graphic art, you could check out Mapplethorpe's photography. During our parents' generations, it was considered very controversial for being possibly homoerotic in nature, and was really the first art series in America to inspire this kind of panic.

 

[theguitarhero6]

If music album covers are acceptable, pick any Cannibal Corpse album, its veeeery unsettling to most. Many harder metal acts have a tendency to attract with shock value, so there's no end to what you can find if you search.
Hope this helped!

 

[ImperialSunlight]

The first thing I thought of was "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. So there's that.

 

[Realitycrash]

The first thing I thought of was "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. So there's that.

My favorite book ever, but sadly, not very controversial by today's standards.

Cheers everyone for helping, by the way. I haven't decided yet, though. Keep em comin'

 

[Noala]

Greetings.
I need help with finding a piece of controversial art to write an exam about in aesthetics (and before you ask; No, I will not write about videogames. Half my class is doing it, and I find it dull, obvious and redundant).
So, got any suggestions? It must be controversial by the standards today (so Picazzo is out).

Cheers.

(note: I don't know the official title of any of these so I'm going by description)
There's this artwork that has Jesus in a bottle of urine, most Cannibal Corpse albums, and that painting that was in the Dead Kennedy's album Frankenchrist.

 

[Muspelheim]

Someone else already mentioned Ecce Homo, but I'll recommend it again. :3

And on the same track, if you really are prepared to get down to business and stirr the pot, I'd suggest digging a bit in the recent Mohammed-charicatyre controversy.

A good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy

Is it art? Is it a proper execution of your freedom of speech or just bigoted propaganda? What does it mean? And so on, there's a lot of potential to be mined, here. But again, it's a bit of a waspnest, to say the least. Flame-retardant clothing and a very analytic approach might be advisable.

 

[Antitonic]

Define "controversy". I mean what about the one The Escapist newsed about recently [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114040-Accidental-Cleanliness-Destroys-1-1m-Art-Installation]? Where a normal person just thought it was a mess to clean up, rather than high art? Surely that would warrant some points for "controversy in aesthetics".

Also , "news" is a verb now. Tell your friends.

 

[Realitycrash]

Gil Vicente takes the cake of controversy, himself assassinating public figures caused quite some controversy at the São Paulo biannual exhibit

Might be the best add yet, leaning towards it.

Fish-in-a-blender or the rotting meat-expose might be more revolting, but I also feel it's more "look-at-me-I'm-calling-this-art-so-I-have-an-excuse-to-get-attention", while this is controversial yet has a clearer political statement (and I know, I know, fish-in-a-blender had too, but seriously..).

 

[Realitycrash]

Define "controversy". I mean what about the one The Escapist newsed about recently [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114040-Accidental-Cleanliness-Destroys-1-1m-Art-Installation]? Where a normal person just thought it was a mess to clean up, rather than high art? Surely that would warrant some points for "controversy in aesthetics".

Also , "news" is a verb now. Tell your friends.

Controversy is defined by anything that gets the media in uproar, or the art-world, pretty much. Yeah, it's an extremely vague phrase, but the exam-requirement is worded rather vaguely as well.

 

[mcnally86]

Greetings.
I need help with finding a piece of controversial art to write an exam about in aesthetics (and before you ask; No, I will not write about videogames. Half my class is doing it, and I find it dull, obvious and redundant).
So, got any suggestions? It must be controversial by the standards today (so Picazzo is out).

Cheers.

12 Labors of Hercules. Half of it is on page 49 with a description. Basically the state bought it and said it was pornographic and hid it in storage for 10 years until someone took it. A college did, because they need a certain portion of art in their building for legal reasons (legaly public buildings have to support the arts and include them) the used it to make quota. Its like a Rorschach test I don't see all the bad things in it but someone does. I think this might be a good peice, its controversial if you look closely but most people don't care and the other aspect is its controversial be because the state of Washington never throws anything away and had to pay for 10 years of storage on it, the only reason they are useing it now is because its a law that your building has to have a certain amount of art.

My captia is "rethmic bucol-" which sounds dirty.

 

[Lilani]

Greetings.
I need help with finding a piece of controversial art to write an exam about in aesthetics (and before you ask; No, I will not write about videogames. Half my class is doing it, and I find it dull, obvious and redundant).
So, got any suggestions? It must be controversial by the standards today (so Picazzo is out).

Cheers.

It depends on what exactly you call "controversial." I don't know too much about contemporary art, but I have taken pre-renaissance and renaissance art history so I do know of Cupid, Venus, Folly, and Time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus,_Cupid,_Folly_and_Time

That one was actually hidden and partially covered up for years, given the nearly erotic hold Cupid has on Venus there. There is still quite a bit of debate as to what this painting actually means.

Then there is controversial in the sense of what is considered to be art. For that, look no further than Marcel Duchamp [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp]. He's the guy who signed his name on a urinal and called it art. He also experimented with the basic concepts of animation before animation even existed, in his painting Nude descending a staircase.

Other than that, I don't really know of many. Good luck, though.