The Holy Virgin Mary

The sensation exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum attracted a lot of noise. Mayor Giuliani's strong protest is "Church office work" Virgin Mary ". Interestingly, he did not notice other horrible works including upright penis, adolescent female models with vagina and anus, various sexual poses, or child harassment and murder portraits. A plexiglass bottle filled with formaldehyde looks like a child's bill or animal divided into two halves.

When Chris Opili's painting "The Virgin Mary" (1996) was exhibited in New York in 1999, then mayor Rudolf Giuliani did not agree with the artist's view on Black Madonna. Molding: "The idea is called art, where people will sick elephants' feces into the picture of the Virgin Mary," Giuliani said. But contemporary artists who wish to produce less important art about Christianity are not endangered species you may think. In some cases, the church even reconfirmed its role as a guardian of its important art. For example, last week, St. Paul's Cathedral in London announced a new video installation "Martyrs" by American artist Bill Viola.

The large scandal by Charles Saatchi may have had the greatest influence on the art market of every exhibition in the history of contemporary art. It was here that Chris Opilie's "Virgin Mary" caused a virtual war between the Catholic Church and the art world in the process of killing New York's justice system. This shocking tactics and dark humor are full; the title of each reading gives a general idea: for example, Ron Muke's Dead Daddy (1996-97) and Jake and Dinos Chapman's tragic anatomy : Cunt Chops (1996). The exhibition attracted attention to "Young British artists" Tracey Emin, Alex Hartley, Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Fiona Rae, Yinka Shonibare, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread.