My art class has made me realize how little I find things truly offensive. Obviously, some things are just offensive to my eyes because it is such BAD art.
However, nothing that the other students posted TRULY offended me. So, without further adieu, I beg of you to post the trashiest, most offensive piece of art you can find. Goatse and other rule 34s are discouraged, seeing that this is supposed to be about “real” art. These things have to be at least able to go in a gallery. Sorry.
Hopefully we can find what the most offensive, revolting art piece is.
(BTW…if this is more Cafe Society, feel free to move it there.)
Hrm. I don’t consider the OP example to be offensive, but neither do I consider it art. But I have my own definition of ‘art’, in that I require it to be at least an attempt to communicate or give SOMETHING to the viewer, and not just be a bit of regurgitated potato that makes the artist feel a little better for having thrown it up.
A bunch of idiot conservative soccer moms in (ready for it??) Kansas thought this sculpture in an arboretum warranted calling a grand jury over charges of promoting obscenity to minors.
As was stated in the article, that’s a camera, not a camera-phone. So it’s not promoting sexting, which the moms seem to be pushing, it’s promoting taking nekkid pictures of yourself.
And while the piece is not bad, and the subject matter is ‘meh’, I would question placing it as ‘art’ in an area where kids regularly see it. I mean, come on. There’s better things to promote, you know? Why waste that space on something that could be used for something actually inspiring? And in the woods? wtf.
Poor placement, and not really inspiring anything but to take nekkid pics of yourself. And, judging by the web, that’s not a need that needs filled, lol.
I’m normally of the school of: if you don’t understand what you’re looking at, it’s not the fault of the object. However, the Portland Art Museum presently has a piece that pretty graphically shows pedophilia in action. It’s not in a room of its own, with a warning sign near the door; it’s on full display, where anyone can round a corner and see it. This is by design of the museum director, who loves to think that he’s being daring and unconventional. I think he’s just being a dick. The piece is offensive and doesn’t belong there.
Ugh. What is the point of that kind of art? Seriously? It’s just Trolling in Real Life. The only debate or conversation it’s going to start is over the validity of the piece itself, so it’s culturally and socially pointless.
I don’t think I’ve ever been outright offended by a legitimate piece of art, but the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman comes very close. So, kudos, I guess?
Yeah, there is definitely a lot of art that is simply the artists expressing themselves, getting something out, and I really do have zero problems with that.
The problem I have is sharing it just to get what could only be a negative reaction.
Speaking of Piss Christ, I often wondered, what if the artist is lying and it really isn’t urine? Or alternately, what if it is urine but he never told anyone and called it something else?
I think that photographer that sets up tableaux with body parts and/or whole dead bodies is pretty offensive. He gets his parts from Mexican morgues, mostly, I think.
But I don’t think finding something offensive is a condemnation of it. Maybe it’s good art. I just can’t handle it because I’m offended.
