Monday, April 13, 2009

Controversy and Historical Art






This is a recreation of Iraqi leader, Sudaam Hussein’s body submerged in a tank of formaldehyde, or embalming fluid. Besides how any Saddam supporter feels, Shark, is a political piece that provokes the definition for controversial art. David created this art with his philosophical belief in the “impossibility of death in the minds of something living.” Which only strikes one thought within me which is: is he really trying to keep Saddam alive? At any rate, Shark is a realistic depiction of that despotic dictator we all have grown to know and view in obscurity so well.












Underground British artist puts his exhibition on display in NYC, which highlights an animatronic monkey and hot dogs.


German artist Emanuel Leutze painted his famous Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) in his Dusseldorf studio, seven years before he moved to the United States. One of the most famous of all American historical paintings, it has numerous historical inaccuracies, including Leutze's inclusion of the Stars and Stripes and jagged ice flows.