The term ‘forgery’ is usually tied to the notion of replication, or creating copies of something so perfect that they are indistinguishable from the original. It is a concept often associated with the illegal printing of money or with copying signatures, and when it is applied to the art world,
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Judith beheading Holofernes is a biblical story in which a young widow assassinates an Assyrian general who is about to destroy her city. She utilizes her femininity to receive an invitation to his quarters and have drinks with the man, and once he has fallen asleep from drinking, she strikes.
This school board has been at odds about what to do, or not to do regarding a series of murals. After initially deciding to paint over the images, they have reconsidered. They are now looking to cover them up while still preserving them. The controversial series is titled “The Life
John Wayne Gacy aka “The Killer Clown”. Named as such for his voluntary community service as a clown to entertain hospitalized children, but chillingly more so for raping, torturing, and murdering at least 33 boys and young men in Cook County, Illinois during the 1970’s. He buried 27 of them
A painting conceived by the internet awakens our society’s dark interest in death. The image depicts a dead women on the floor of her home with blood spatter on the wall behind her, a gun in her right hand, and a cigarette in her left and asks its viewers to
Polish artist, Igor Morski depicts some of todays struggles in his art work. Most notably for me is the stagnant water depicted in this picture with a child as the passenger in a boat with the mother on top and the father in the reflection below the boat seated in
Who remembers the last time they were told what they were not allowed to view? When you were living in your parent’s house before you turned 18? Most people may believe that is true, that their parents were the last people who had control over what they watched but in
Artist Timi Páll, used nine months of her menstrual blood for an artwork piece. Many have considered it disgusting, but everyone has their unique interpretation on what art is. According to Timi ” I’ve used my period flow as an artistic substance like oil paints and pencils,” even went as
John Wayne Gacy, was an American serial killer and rapist who took the lives of at least 33 young males in Cook County, Illinois, burying most under his home. In 1994, he was executed by lethal injection, but was also known as the “Serial Killer Clown”. What makes this interesting
A painting created and inspired by the Trayvon Martin case boldly symbolizes the racism in the American Criminal Justice system. The artist, Michael D’Antuono, was outraged by George Zimmerman trying to profit from killing a teenager armed with skittles. Zimmerman sold one of his paintings on eBay for $100,000, and