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Today we are going to answer rapidly
The question: Witch are the 5  most controversial
Works of art in the world? Welcome!
 
Hello Welcome to CriaArte, Im Sara , and today is Monday
Today we will give a quick answer
to a question ask by
several of our subscribers. The question is:
Witch are the 5  most controversial
works of art in the world?
This answer is difficult because
it has to do with your personal test level
With what you think are the limits of art
With the aesthetic that strikes you more. In this case I choose
five works of art extremely controversial
And I must warn that his video may offend some people
That may not consider this works that much controversial.
Times do change... Lets begin by our first work
This one is considered
The most controversial work of art
of all times in art history. And its a work
of the final part of the Italian Renascence
From the great (and one of my favourites)
The artist: Miguel Ângelo. Im talking about
"Final Judgement", that is part of the
Sistine Chapel. Its not the ceiling. Miguel Ângelo painted the ceiling
but he also painted one wall.
This wall was painted later in the Renascence
And also later in his live. And is a entire wall
with one gigantic dimension
and became very well known
as one the the greatest works of art of all times
and is also considered
the most controversial work of all times, and why?
Lets look at the work and talk about it.
This work is grandiose. it took four years to complete
It started in 1536
And was finished in 1541, and I will leave here
The link for the video of Miguel Ângelo
Because we have it here
in our channel CriaArte.
But lets continue. This art work has
more then 12 meters high, and describes the
judgment day. The second visit of Christ to earth. The day he judges
Who is going to paradise and who is going to hell.
So this work already has a difficult subject, He is judging
We don't have here a kind Christ
A forgiving one, but one that that has
a bad temper, one that judges people. Part of this people
is going to hell and other part is going to paradise
We cannot forget that in the last part of the Renascence
This work was aimed to alert people to
the sins of the protestant: If you were a protestant you would go
to hell
More than that this was a work to shock
to wake up people
So he use a lot of tricks
to call the eyes of the spectators . At the time
this work caused a lot of controversy. The  Counsil of Trento declared
that some works of art were forbidden. All works of art
must then follow some guides lines. One of the decisions
of the Council of Trento was deciding was if the work
was...chaste, and was
and was enough
oriented to the principals of the Church
Of course that  12 meters high naked figures
were not well received
However the Pope was a great friend of Miguel Ângelo and protected him
So the fact that the figures were
In Miguel Ângelo time completely naked
It caused shock. Not to the Pope but to
the rest of the church
The story is told that Biagio da Cesena
he was a very famous Cardeal
and he didn't like Miguel Ângelo. One day he entered the Sixtine Chapel look around
And he declares that the work is not
for the eyes of the believers, that is a shame
that every one is naked
people with more than 2 meters... all
with everything out... it could not be! So...
it was declare that the work was inappropriate
for a place of worship, and has an answers Miguel Ângelo
decided to paint Cesena itself in the work, with donkey ears
naked and covered with one snake, on the way to
hell
It was a funny lesson. There it is with the donkey ears
So it was a offence. After the death of Miguel Ângelo
one of his students was a sked to cover
with robes the obscene
of the naked bodies. So this was
a very polemic work, that created a lot of controversy
This is the most polemic of the five works that I choose
but is also beautiful
Now lets go to the second most controversial art work of all times
Let's jump out of Renascence period and to
Barroco, for the one that is my favourite painter of
all times... Caravaggio. I'm talking about
"The Death of the Virgin". The painting is beautiful
but it generated a lot of controversy. This work
was commissioned for one Church, but it was refused
by that church wend was finished.
By the way this was common with Caravaggio
He has the most beautiful Madonnas
the most amazing Virgin... and  almost
all of them were refused by the church
Now they are in exhibition in galleries and galleries
galleries of Caravaggio Madonnas
all of them beautiful, and all of them controversial
but nome as much controversial has this one.
Why? Lets look at the painting and lets think
Witch is the theme of this work?
The theme is the Death
of the Virgin. Looking at this work the Church considered
this work offensive and devoid of holiness
For some reasons... first Caravaggio used a Prostitute of the
streets of Rome as a model for the Madonna
He did this a lot. He did'n have the money for better models
But he was also a bit outrageous, offensive
He first used a prostitute very
well known in the streets of Rome has the Virgin
With that he already made a problem, but he did'n
stop there because
he used to go tho the morgues and study the bodies
and here he tried to be realistic, so
here we see a lifeless body
the position is of a body
with no life inside. There's a legend that he
study in detail the body of a woman that drowned
that's why Mary look so puffy so
It's an image that does'n represent Mary
ascending to the sky, there is no
indication of divine live, of spiritual light
of live after death, of what happens
to the soul. He painted a body
a human body, of a human woman
a veryrealistic  death human female
as the Holy Virgin. It's obvious that
by the church this was not accepted. They miss the Holiness
they miss the modesty
because the model was a prostitute
they miss the connection  to the divine
So Caravaggio does not portrait a Holy Mary
beautiful and immaculate, but one dead woman
one not saint, one mortal and carnal woman. Caravaggio portrait
the real and not the ideal.
And that was a big scandal!
Now we are going to the 3 most controversial art work
of the art history
This is really polemic, I was thinking about it
If I could show it
But I decided to do it. I like it
But unfortunately I can not show it
completely because its a bit aggressive for many people
im going to pixel it, but Im
going to leave (in the description of the video) the Link to Musee D'Orsay
Where this work is
And you can go the link and see the work
as it means to be seen. This is
"The Origin of the World", from Gustave Coubert
This work, that still today is extremely controversial
to the point that I had to pixel it
Is from Gustave Coubert and it was a commission from a
Turkish diplomat, collector of erotic art work
The truth is that at first look  this work  has a
erotic level, and that's the reason for the controversy
Its a female body, portrait
from the neck down, form the knees up, and open legs
its true.But the name takes out all the erotic
charge, because
it's call The Origin of the world. And it's truly the origin, is it not?
It's from were all of us come from
If you accept this
Or not... It's from between the Ladies legs
So, it's obvious that this art work
Was conceal from the eyes of the viewers during many years
Lately it was again surrounded by controversy
... because... it was found the face
of the model for the work . There is a identity
for the body. That created a lot of talk
in the media. And also,  one artist
a very famous French artist
in 2013 a famous artist
decided to go to the museum
and put herself in front on the work of art
with open legs, no underwear in the same posture
of the model the work. She was removed from de museum by
museum security, but this started another question that is:
Can there be art censor? She was making art.
Who are we to say... hum...
whatever it is (art)... This was a even bigger controversy
And this work, The Origin of the World is
until today one of the most controversial of all times. And this was the 3.
Now we are going for the 4 most
controversial work of art, and is from
an artistic collective. An Artistic collective
named
Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla girls
are a group of art started in 1985
by seven women, that are still
fighting for the women artist's right's and
against racism and against sexism, because
the art installations are extremely
agressive and outrageous
they preserve their identity
using gorilla masks
and they started all this movement
of guerrilla
against the sexism and against racism
and against the female inequality
after the MET (the museum of modern art
in New York)
organised an art retrospective
an art retrospective were they show
they would show all the great artists
off all this retrospective
that included 165 artists
only 13 of this 165 artists where
females. So this art collective made
a question: It is necessary to be naked
to enter in the Modern Art Museum of New York?
Because there is almost no exhibitions
of female artists the most part
of the subjects of the paintings are female nudes.
So its easier for a naked woman
to enter in the museum (in a canvas) then
an female artist exhibit at the museum. So this
raise a lot of issues. They made a lot of posters, art installations
and they still until today to create this kind of
movement, in different countries in the world and asking
for equal rights to women in art and
for equal access to art education
that is other question they discuss.
And, of course this is extremely ...
hum...
it's not popular.
Let's go now for another work of art
extremely controversial that is : "The Fountain"
from Duchamp
The Fountain from Duchamp, is technically one male urinol
in porcelain, and its considered one of the most iconic woks
from the art movement Pop Art
This work was created in 1917
by Duchamp, that purchased the male urinol to a plumber company
from New York,  put it upside down on a pedestal
and sign "R. Mutt"
In that year Duchamp send his work anonymously  to the
independent society of artists with the objective
to participate in an exhibition, and this  independent society
said that it was accepting all works
of art! However they refuse this work.
This end up creating a lot of confusion and debate because
who are they to say what is art?
who are they not to exhibit all art? The true is that
this work disappeared, the original one
but is extremely famous and extremely
controversial. And that was exactly
what Duchamp was doing and was also
that what Pop Art was doing: making people
question what art was?
what is the limit of art? What is originality? So all this
was in the middle of controversy
And now we are going to talk about the last one
Its from an Artist ...
hum... outside of the norms
He is an artist from outside the rules of art
He makes... hum... to me
personally  is very uncomfortable
but art is made to takes out of our comfort
zone ... hum... let's see
This artist has one of the most controversial works ever made
in the art work of all times. is name is
Piero Manzoni and this cans are named
90 cans of... shit
What he did was... he wanted that his fans
and the ones who like art
may have something physical
from the artist they love. So what he did was to
poop... in cans
close the cans, put a label and sell them for a ... gigantic
price... and he sell them all
and they are considered rare peaces of art.
They are nothing more them the artist poop
With a label! They were sold individually
To very high prices. A lot of collectors seek for this items
not just because is different , but also
because they believe they can get closer
to the genius
More controversial than this... does not
exist. To me
it bothers me so much... but
perhaps I miss all the context and more study about
the life of the artist
And this was it. The works of art most...
I think I named 6 instead of 5! The most controversial
A list made by CriaArte. If you know
others (I know some more but was honestly I didn't
want to included them) but if you know others
that are really controversial
please share in the comments
I would love to discover more
more works equally controversial
in the sense of making us think and discuss about art
OK? We went around the world from the Origin of the
World, to the Judgement Day
We saw the Madonna, the cans of shit, the guerrilla girls
we saw Duchamp...  we saw so much
in such a small video. Next week we have more
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OK? See you next week. Stay well. Im Sara. Tchauuuuu
