Tag: controversy
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Everyone Is Throwing Away Their Gillette Products After Gillette Releases A Controversial Ad
In the last few weeks the brand Gillette, known for their men’s shaving products, has caused controversy due to their new advertisement which addresses the MeToo movement, sexual harassment, and bullying. The new advertisement uses the same tagline that the company has been using for the past 30 years – “The best a man can…
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Powerful Illustrations By Japanese Artist That Will Make You Think
Japanese illustrator Avogado6 chooses to keep his identity a mystery and not much is known about the person behind the illustrations. “I am an ordinary person who likes chemistry,” he writes on his Twitter profile, but as you will see his emotional works are far from ordinary. Avogado6 manages to create sentimental, vivid images by…
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EXCLUSIVE Unveiling of Girl In The Bin by Banksy at Sotheby’s
The Banksy saga continues… Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you will have heard the news about the Banksy shredding painting saga. We reported about it HERE, HERE and HERE. Sotheby’s have maintained that they have nothing to do with it, but they’re definitely dining out on the publicity. They’ve just unveiled…
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Mother Takes Darkly Humorous & Controversial Family Photos
Susan Copich is a photographer, actress and model from New York. When not in front of the camera, she finds herself behind it, creating fictitious, dark and domestic scenarios using herself, her daughters and her husband as the actors. In her series “Domestic Bliss”, Susan has combined metaphor, irony and satire to create a dialogue…
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The Ten Most Controversial Artworks Ever Exhibited
Artists have been pushing people’s buttons when it comes to creating works of artistic value for centuries. In doing so, they have also opened up a dialogue about which works of art should be permitted and who has the right to other people’s suffering. What may have been considered controversial decades ago may no longer be…
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Everything Wrong With Today’s Society Encapsulated in Illustrations by Al Margen
In his latest series of illustrations, Argentinian artist Al Margen portrays the world as he sees it – a dark and depressing. The thought provoking images play on a variety of topics, although the author himself is very critical about his works “They are children of boredom, nonconformity or anger. <…> They are the representation of…
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Dark and Controversial Digital Illustrations by Russian Artist
No since the works of Luis Quiles (see HERE) have we seen artwork as controversial as these. Russian digital artist Waldemar von Kazak skirts the gamete of controversy, surrealism and social commentary, using sexual tension and bizarre characters to capture viewers’ imaginations. Like him or loathe him, Waldermar’s work does exactly what great art is supposed…
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Artist Richard Prince Makes $100,000 Selling Your Instagram Pictures in New York
Right now you can purchase someone’s Instagram photo for around $100,000. The money won’t go to the photographer, however, it will go to Richard Prince, who has blown up and made prints of other people’s Instagram photos for his series titled “New Portraits.” The previously private show at the Gagosian has been a part of Frieze. According to…
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Artist Photographs Politicians Packaged in Meat Trays
Following on from our very popular and controversial post about an artist who depicts world leaders sitting on the toilet (see HERE), along comes Saint Hoax, a pseudonymous Middle Eastern artist. Infatuated by the element of pop, Hoax works with both tangible and digital mediums to recreate a world based on visual lies. Combining pop art with tyrants…
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Artist Paints World Leaders on the Toilet…
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Italian artist Cristina Guggeri comes along and blows it out of the water with her latest series called Il Dovere Quotidiano, or “The Daily Duty”. In this series, Guggeri sets out to ‘humanize’ the world’s leaders by imaging what they might look like on the toilet. And she’s…