Sensation Exhibit
The Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensation" exhibit redefined that art in any form is and always will be the highest form of expression. The exhibit, in my opinion, is strangely interesting and the diversity between individualism is very apparent. The many works proved the exhibits name "Sensation" to be just that. The images stay consistent of mutants, preserved sea monsters, human blood, genitalia, and an abundance of death. I was left pondering over the vivid imaginations and distorted thoughts of the young artists', and especially Chris Ofili. Jake and Dinos Chapman's "Great Deeds Against the Dead" showed great similarities to that of Francisco Goya's "Saturn Devouring One of His Sons". Both works imply horrific torture in the form of cannibalism, and the beauty of it lies in the disbelief that it could never happen, when in reality forms of cannibalism do and have existed. I found the Chapman's "DNA Zygotic" and "Tragic Anatomies" to be very strange, but at the same time it made me think about the possibility of something like this ever coming true, considering science has been in a sense playing God with their continued experimentations with cloning. Marc Quinn's "Self", a life-size sculpture of his own head, and c
Rudolf Giuliani's quick attack on the Brooklyn Museum of Art was unmerited considering he viewed only a picture of Ofili's painting, and not the actual exhibit itself. His threat to take all public funding away from the museum in an attempt to cancel the exhibit was a callous move on his part. Giuliani is entitled to his own view of the painting, but it is imperiously wrong of him to seek the suppression of art. The public has a right to materialize one's own opinion of the exhibition. If a person feels that a particular exhibit may offend them, then they should not go observe it. The center of controversy was Chris Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary", a black Madonna figure surrounded by cut-outs from pornographic magazines, and clumps of elephant manure. It grasped the attention of New York Mayor Rudolf Giuliani and several Roman Catholic Groups. Historically, art serves not only to arouse and relish, but stimulates to provoke concept and inquiry. Vindication exists in the form of a court ruling that satisfies the truth that every once in a while, justice will prevail. reated out of nine pints of his own frozen blood is what I consider to be taking right to expression a little far. Is Quinn someone who gets pleasure out of pain, or is his intention focused on the fact that he is the art. The "Plan", by artist Jenny Saville, is a painting of a nude woman that is not the norm for my generation's idea of sensuality. I found it to be alot like that of Sandro Bott
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