Three different artists
Sam Taylor wood
Samantha Taylor Wood born 4th march 1957 and born
in England is known for being a very successful filmmaker, visual artist and
photographer. Her first attempt was a major flop called the nowhere boy, which
was a film based on the background and childhood of each member of the famous world
known band the Beatles. But she became successful through her visual art the
two standout pieces are the rotting fruit and the rotting rabbit corpse. These
pieces of art both display the decay of a rabbits deceased body and also the
decay of fruit which has been left for months to rot, this art is in video form
and very interesting and disturbing. The fruit art is called a still life and
the decaying rabbit is call a small death. i believe by using an actual rabbits corpse could be seen as controversial because animal rights campaigners could find this cruel and very inappropriate using a previously living body for art.
Bill viola
Bill Viola was born January 5th 1981 and is a
contemporary video artist, and his art focuses on fundamental human experiences
such as birth and death. Bill violas art mainly consists of water featured
pieces, e.g. one of his work of arts is of a man being pulled out of a well
which is full of water, he is pale and looks almost dead and he has no movement
in this lifeless body, This piece of art was inspired by a picture of Jesus
Christ but he says that his piece of art has nothing to do with religion. So
bill violas art is a very specific and different type of video instillation
because almost every single piece of art consists of water which relates to a
child memory and experience which encouraged him to involve water in his work
so often. The image of using a picture which is so similar to jesus christ is very controversial because people are religious predominately christian could see this as a direct insult and this could cause an uproar agains bill viola and his works of art.
Mathew Barney
Matthew Barney was born march 25th 1996 he is an American artist
who’s work involves being sculpture, photographer, an artist and a film maker.
He shot to fame when he created a feature called the Cremaster cycle in the
years 1994 – 2004 this was a series of five feature films described by many as
the most impressive pieces of art ever made. This pieces of art mainly explore
the cycle of creation and this consisted of sculptures, drawings and
photographs which all came into visual effect very successfully. Matthew Barney art is very sensual and sexual this could be seen as controversial if a child or young adult saw this they could be influenced of effected by it as a result making allot of parents and guardians angry.
