Friday, April 22, 2011

A Brief History of Controversial Art (Sex! Jesus! Jesus-Sex!)

Posted by on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM

jeff koons
  • If you look closely, you can see her Koons.
Ben recently told you about some Christian morons attacking an image of Christ Their Lord and Savior, over in France (poor, poor Piss Christ). So, this seemed like an appropriate moment for me to return to the glories of google-image searching and present you with more controversial art! Sadly, most of it is actually PRETTY SAFE FOR WORK.

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A Brief History of Controversial Art
<i>The Raft of the Medusa</I>, by Gericault <i>Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe</i>, Manet <i>Madame X</i>,  John Singer Sargent <i>Guernica</i>, Picasso <i>Etant Donnes</i>, Marcel Duchamp <i>Brooke Shields Portrait</i>, Gary Gross From the X Portfolio, Robert Mapplethorpe <i>Interrogation III</i>, Leon Golub

A Brief History of Controversial Art

By Jonny Diamond

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