Artworks that Shocked the Art World
Salvador Dali, Lobster Telephone (1936)
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Salvador Dalí, Lobster Telephone (1936) |
Chris Burden, Shoot (1971)
As we needed to see it to trust it, it was recorded on video, where we see his assistant shooting from a legitimate 22 rifle from a separation of around 5 meters (16 feet), shooting the artist in his left arm.
After it happened, Chris Burden looked very shocked, maybe it was more difficult and painful than he thought, which was, then again, his exact point, as it was the season of war in Vietnam and mobs in the city of American urban areas.
The artist, obviously, recovered, just to keep stunning the public with pieces like Trans-Fixed.
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Andres Serrano, Piss Christ (1987)
Serrano’s artpiece, “Piss Christ”, is a photo that demonstrates a little plastic cross submerged in his very own glass pee. In spite of being generally welcomed when shown in 1987, it caused an extraordinary disturbance when displayed again in 1989. People were maddened by how much money Serrano got for the work and started to send him death threat and hate mail. Many saw the piece as ungodly and rude to the Christian religion.
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Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)
Marcus Harvey, Myra (1995)
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Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary (1996)
Turner prize winner Chris Ofili can owe everything to his 1996 “The Holy Virgin Mary”. This vast mix media painting portrays a dark lady wearing cloths ascribed to the Virgin Mary. Presently, on the grounds that depicting Madonna as dark isn’t sufficient, he likewise included an elephant waste, map pins and encompassed her with images from pornographic magazines, which can only be seen when pay attention. The stun that this work caused reached to previous US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and afterward NYC chairman Rudy Giuliani, who called the artwork “sick”. Chris Ofili has likewise portrayed the work of art as “a hip-hop version” of the Virgin Mary.
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Tracey Emin¸ My Bed (1998)
Torn between this piece and Everyone I Have Ever Slept With, I ran with My Bed essentially in light of the fact that it’s still out there, as the previous got decimated in a fire in 2004. “My Bed” is an installation in which Tracey Eminbasically lived for a few days. She was discouraged over her fizzled relationships. Accordingly, around the bed, there’s grimy clothing, utilized condoms, alcohol containers, trash. This work was considered “disgusting” by the general population – even “sluttish”, and by an art critic as well, given that the work was, unexpectedly, battling this sort of bias. Not long ago, the installation came back to Tate Britain, after fifteen years.

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