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Ms. Carry Art

• May 26, 2008 • Comments (4)
Aliza Shvarts

How would you feel about viewing Aliza Shvarts’ newest artistic creation? It’s a mixture of performance art, language arts and visual art; in this work she artificially inseminated herself and forced miscarriages upon herself, with abortifacient medication, not once –not twice; how about as many times in nine-months as she could following the following procedure. [...]

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10 Controversial Art Pieces

• May 5, 2008 • Comments (25)
My Sweet Lord - Under Construction

Throughout most of our lives, art has become progressively more controversial. There is a direct correlation between the acceptance of controversial art within society and with the artist’s production of it. This is simply because some artists exist in a world that consists of a never-ending quest for their next great piece of controversial work [...]

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Deadly Arts

• April 26, 2008 • Comments (14)
Hannelore Reuen - Sculpture of a dead woman

An ominously dense deluge of debate hangs heavy in the atmosphere of the art community. Gregor Schneider, a German artist, decided that his next piece of art will be similar to the execution of a criminal. The only difference is that there will be no execution and there will be no criminal, just death and [...]

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Art Simply Will Not Die

• April 24, 2008 • Comments (3)
Artwork by John Waters - Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Statistically art sales are down, but this is only relative to multi-million dollar art sales taking place day after day. Like art itself, the market is dependent on the opinion (or confidence) people have in it. When their confidence is weary, that is, when their perception is distorted, people buy less, and the market is [...]

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What is Art?

• April 18, 2008 • Comments (1)
What is Art?

What is art? Art, to me, is the appreciation of anything set aside from reality. Dictionary.com defines art as being something that is appealing or more than ordinary in significance. Art is the story of a culture. Whether the art topic is Michelangelo’s David or Colors by Joe Shmoe, it all symbolizes one-thing and that’s [...]

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