Brazilian artist in the frame assassinating the Pope, the Queen and George Bush

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8027019/Brazilian-artist-in-the-frame-assassinating-the-Pope-the-Queen-and-George-Bush.html

The Queen faces the onlooker with her hands clasped before her, apparently unaware that the artist is behind her pointing a gun at her back.

Pope Benedict XVI confronts the assassin with his hands raised, while the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Solva is trussed like a joint of meat with a butcher’s knife at his throat.

Other world leaders depicted in the violent series include the former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The series, called Inimigos (Enemies), is meant to highlight alleged crimes for which the leaders have been directly or indirectly responsible by imagining that they are being made to pay the price.

damn bre

yes but did he put pasta in himself and say a bad poem and long for the approval of his shallow and privileged peer group?

huh?

did he?

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The works, hanging in a prominent position in the Biennial exhibition in a hall in Sao Paulo's main Ibirapuera Park, are valued collectively at $260,000 (£165,000). They are not available individually.

This guy is a pretty shit artist (from what I can see at a distance), but a brilliant marketer. Go, go, go, instant quarter millionaire!

hehe

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Perhaps art is about how the viewer reacts to it. Violence completes the partial mind.

i like that quote.

Mediocre artist uses shock value to achieve notoriety - classic

Unimaginative, narcissistic, sophomoric and not shocking at all. This is the kind of stuff you doodle when you are bored to tears in DARE classes at age 15 and share with your classmates for shits and giggles.

what's a drawi?

Something serial, apparently.

the painting to the right looks like stephen hawking getting his throat cut.

  On 9/27/2010 at 12:50 PM, Al Hounos said:

Mediocre artist uses shock value to achieve notoriety - classic

  On 9/27/2010 at 12:50 PM, Al Hounos said:

Mediocre artist uses shock value to achieve notoriety - classic

this

Anything to do with fartbrazil? I just saw something about 'Brazilian' and 'shock artist' so...

Anger anger. How dare he? This doesn't fit into my idea of art. Anger, rage. I need things to get upset about because I don't do anything with myself.

THIS DOESNT COINCIDE WITH MY PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS OF WHAT ART SHOULD BE SO IT FUCKING SUCKS

HE SHOULD TRY PHOTOSHOPPING SOME GLITCH ART AND LISSEN TO APHEX TWIN DRUQZ THEN HE MIGHT BE COOL AND REPRESENT MY WORLDVIEW

I'm an artist. I have art on my wall.

It's art.

  On 9/28/2010 at 12:54 AM, 24ourange said:

THIS DOESNT COINCIDE WITH MY PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS OF WHAT ART SHOULD BE SO IT FUCKING SUCKS

 

HE SHOULD TRY PHOTOSHOPPING SOME GLITCH ART AND LISSEN TO APHEX TWIN DRUQZ THEN HE MIGHT BE COOL AND REPRESENT MY WORLDVIEW

got a good chuckle from this, but yeah

Imagine the impact if this was painted in shit.

I may have respected it then...