Controversial pieces of art
Published: 06 April 2014 | by Pippa Mann
Controversy has always followed art and here are some pieces that have divided opinion.
Tracy Emin's My Bed in 1998 is one of the most controversial contemporary pieces of art.
It consists of the artist's dishevelled bed with bedroom objects including condoms, stained sheets, vodka bottles and menstrual stained underwear.
The public has also been both shocked and disturbed by the provocative sculptures of contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini.
Patricia Piccinini's The Long Awaited, 2008, includes silicone, fibreglass, human hair, leather, plywood, clothing.
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Damien Hirst's tiger shark in a tank of formaldehyde was called a "cultural obscenity" by art critic Robert Hughes.
The work was sold by Charles Saatchi in 2004 for $8 million, the second highest price paid for a work of art by a living artist.
David Cerny, SharkDavid Cerny's work riffs on Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living."
Instead of a suspended tiger shark, Cerny used an underwear-clad model of Saddam Hussein, who supposedly fed his enemies to sharks.
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