Friday, June 1, 2012

MEMORABLE PIECES OF ART MADE FROM PIECES OF SH*T AND LOTS OF PISS


Artist: CHRIS OFILI
Title of Work: Holy Virgin Mary
Year: 1996
Materials: Elephant dung
Public Reaction: Then (NYC) Mayor Rudy Giuliani issued a lawsuit for exhibiting Mr. Ofili's work in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

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15 comments:

  1. Wonder if that has an odor to it?

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  2. Well, I mean it's pretty..

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  3. I think this is pretty nice actually, it's not a bad painting at all, if you hadn't told us what it was made of I genuinely don't think I'd have known.

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  4. It actually looks quite good, and that's almost scary.

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  5. Yes, I remember this controversial piece!

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  6. looks about as good as the material she used

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  7. good thing the internet doesn't do smells

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  8. Kinda reminds me how some artist literally crapped in a bunch of tin cans and sold THAT as "art pieces."

    Like, those old-school style tin cans with the self-opening pins.

    Yeah. Sold 'em for a bunch of money, each one. x_X Too much for freakin' crap in a can.

    Oh, and also that machine which takes perfectly good cuts of steak and as it goes down the conveyer belt adds the proper types of fluids and bacteria until it literally gets eaten away and transformed into crap.

    Yeah. Art.

    Pfffft.

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  9. I am not even sure how someone decides to use pee and poop to create art.

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  10. It's not too bad looking, but I guess you'd have to hang it in the bathroom!

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