The artists are reacting to traditional art movements with the aim to create something to engage with the audience. ... This image is reminiscent of a delivery room; the creature appears to have just been born, the doctor is showing it to those beyond the glass, and this also has connotations of a Frankenstein styled development of technology. ... 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...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Etant Donnes by Marcel Duchamp is an interactive sculpture where viewers firstly face a rustic and antiquated looking wooden door (figure 1) with a peephole (figure 2) in an empty room within the Philadelphia museum. ... The view is seen through a deliberately made hole which gives a feeling of distance and looking into another world (figure 4). ... Le Violin d'Ingres (figure 5) by Man Ray is a monochromatic photograph of a woman with a violin shaped body with f holes painted on her back to resemble a string instrument. ... The artwork incorporates the "male gaze theory", which...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Just as censorship and the creation of art viewed as obscene exist today, it existed in the past. Some felt it was necessary to prevent the viewing of obscene art because even thought it had artistic value, the obscene content exceeded the artistic value. ... The decision makers of the time thought that some viewers such as women, children and uneducated lower class people would not know how to view the pieces. The pieces were put in a separate room where they were guarded and only people with permission from the king could enter. The room became known as the "Cabinet of Obscene Objects" a...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Just as censorship and the creation of art viewed as obscene exist today, it existed in the past. Some felt it was necessary to prevent the viewing of obscene art because even thought it had artistic value, the obscene content exceeded the artistic value. ... The decision makers of the time thought that some viewers such as women, children and uneducated lower class people would not know how to view the pieces. The pieces were put in a separate room where they were guarded and only people with permission from the king could enter. The room became known as the "Cabinet of Obscene Objects" a...

• Word Count: 2204
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School