Controversial Art

Artificial Insemenation Art Project











Aliza Schwarts, Yale student, for her senior art project decided to artificially insemenate herself and then induce abortions over a nine month period. After Yale heard about the accousations they quickly stated that the project was fake but Aliza says otherwise. However, she claims she cannot prove she ever got pregnant. She stated she wanted it to inspire some sort of discourse.


On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding...this performance piece has numerous conceptual goals. The first is to assert that often, normative understandings of biological function are a mythology imposed on form...it is a myth that ovaries and a uterus are meant to birth a child.

The Czech anti-conformist artist David Cerny made a Saddam model and named it "The Shark". The work was planned to be displayed in the Fall in the Dronkenput Museum in Belgium but the officials are afraid that the sculpture is too provocative. Its not known whether it is allowed to visualize Saddam Hussain. The story is that David Černý has created this interesting sculpture as criticism of the U.S. foreign policy. On the other hand, he is an anti-communist.

This four year old girl is wowing New York with her contemporary art paintings. Marla Olmstead has been painting since she was two. Using brushes, spatulas, her fingers and even ketchup bottles, she is creating canvases of six by six foot. She has already sold about 25 paintings, raising $40,000 and a new exhibition just opened two months ago.

Greg Schneider, a German artist, decided that his next piece of art will be similar to the execution of a criminal. The only difference is that there will be no execution and there will be no criminal, just death and just art.
Currently, he’s seeking already-dying volunteers to lay in an art gallery, alone, in view of uneasily curious onlookers who anticipate nothing more than for the subject to take his or her last breath, so Schneider can simply capture what he calls, “the beauty in death.”

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Frida Kahlo Paintings

Frida Kahlo was a mexican painter who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that include realism, symbolism, and surrealism. Many of her works are self-portraits that symbolically express her own pain and sexuality. Frida was born on july 6 1907 in the house of her parents known as "the blue house , in mexico city, which later became a museum dedicated to her.

She often claimed she was born in 1910 so people would associcate her with the mexican reavolution

Kahlo was in a accident were she sustained serious injuries leaving her bedridden for several months. Her mother bought her a lap easel and while she recovered she began to paint.

Of 143 paintings 55 were self=portriats which portrayed her physical and pyschological wounds.

Frida married mexican painter Deigo Rivera in 1929 and later divorced but remarried him in 1940.

Kahlo's art did not gain recognition till decades after her death.

In 2001 she became the 1st hispanic woman to be honored with a us postage stamp.

In 2002 the american film Frida was released. it grossed 58 million world wide.

In 2006 Kahlo's Painting "ROOTS" set a $5.6 million auction record for a Latin American Artist.

Above and Below are examples of her works.

Some of her works of art can also be viewed upstairs at "The Border" in carrollton.