In many cases, contemporary art must turn to shock value to challenge and engage the audience in the modern world. ... Here Piccinini has presented her view of what these 'Perfect' babies would look like, the exaggeration of the form expressing her views. ... In our modern society, it is not the purpose of art to merely cause the audience discomfort in its viewing. ... In this modern world the graphic nature of the art forces the audience to engage with the work, and form personal opinions of society. The shocking nature of modern contemporary art is something which is a direct resu...

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The photo-exhibition created by Joseph Koudelka is the artist's reflection on modern times, representing his aesthetics of perception, broadly speaking, and, more specifically, his vision of social reality. ... The artist's works are artistically perfect: exposition, the balances between light and shadow, black-and-white color scheme are coordinated harmoniously. However, photographs by Joseph Koudelka are not only perfect in terms of technique, but also highly symbolic. ...

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That is the perfect embodiment of injustice being inflicted on human being with a mix of sheer hypocrisy. ... One can unearth many significant differences as how people's conception of comprehending context that has totally changed over time in comparison to modern day. ... Conversely in the modern time we will judge his integrity and characterize him as being subservient and very much self-centered who is just looking to benefit himself and make him look like the wise person in the big picture. ...

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This lead to him publishing 'The Cost of Living', which put the other extreme on 'Thatcher's' Britain – that of the middle class being consumer-crazy, horribly perfect, starched shirt and floral-dress brigade – under the microscope. ... Danziger's work clearly depicts what a modern Briton looks like. ... ; a spectacular exhibition taking place at the National Portrait Gallery in association with Channel 4 to that focuses on "the complexity of identity" in modern Britain. ...

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The vast number of pieces and famous artists ranging from Matisse to Warhol to Serra to Erwin, displayed this museum's ambition at providing a crash course in modern art. ... Though at first this set up was a bit confusing and different, once familiarized with the flow and point of the design, I experienced how this use of space worked and flowed perfect for this exhibition. ...

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"In the end the art of the past is being mystified because a privileged minority is striving to invent a history which can retrospectively justify the role of the ruling classes, and such a justification can no longer make sense in modern terms"(Berger 11). ... "What the modern means of reproduction have done is to destroy the authority of art and to remove it- or, rather, to remove its images which they reproduce- from any preserve" (Berger 32). ... McFadden states on the opening page, "The complex iconography of the Five Senses, if ambiguous to a modern viewer, conve...

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