Challenging And Controversial Art Post.

Where is this challenging post?

I think we're supposed to add to the 'challenging and politically moving' images with our own........sure! And get sent to the sin-bin? No thanks..........been there, done that, lol.
I'll stick to passive-aggressive.much less risky.

Who cares about art "making a difference" in the world - most of us would prefer it made a jingle in our wallet - or purse - as the case might be. However - if you like tilting at windmills - be my guest.

Why are there so many "post your art" threads back in the discussions again? I can't find the real discussions.

That's right, everybody. Rip the OP to shreds! Let's show 'em what FAA is made of!

thing is its against the rules to talk about politics and this thread will probably creep into that rule.

though i don't see how that opening image fits the theme at all.

---Mike Savad

Starting the image 'Dump'!

This is what happens to threads about controversial art matters:

Hi Nik, We have not got a sharing thread with those types of images so that is cool. Look forward to seeing the artwork. Thanks for putting a warning in the title for those who do not wish to view :D


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Hi Nik, We have not got a sharing thread with those types of images so that is cool. Look forward to seeing the artwork. Thanks for putting a warning in the title for those who do not wish to view :D



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Thanks Isabella!

I dont make art for money if i did i wouldnt make art haha

You also don't make political art unless that's a piece about oppression of palm trees.

OK, I will give this a go. This is almost a landmark in Toronto near my studio however I don't know the artist. Years ago, the city chopped off this tree and left only an ugly stump and never replaced with a new tree. An artist turned it into a painted sculpture with the words hug me on it.( many passing-by and specially tourist would have their photo taken while hugging it). Ever since been known as the hug me tree. Every few months, mysteriously it would be touched up with new painting on it. Eventually, the stump was rotted away it was replaced with a paper mache one.
Few winters ago after it suffer too many abused by the club-goers in the area it was all disappeared and I thought it was the end to the hug me tree.Amazingly, one day when I walk by the same spot and hug me tree is back even in a more elaborate form

That's cool Alfred

Is it still paper mache or did they move on to something more pemanent?

alfred thats the message!

welcome to the post joshua love your art! That picture is a piece on how we are ignorant to what we are doing to the planet as humans hence the nuclear reactors!

see above

This and many of Hartmut's works moved me to tears.......his sensitivity to matters that challenge the right for man's inhumanity to man......and the awful consequences............good thread......

Nik, I was amazed at the response to this very gentle challenge/artwork, it meant a lot to me to be supported...........great comments there.....and it sold, too.........

Vivian, Hartmut Jagers art is very moving i agree , I took a look at some of your art its amazing,highly inspiring!

Thank you very much.

your more than welcome..

Nik, I commented on this one....great subtle message, good abstraction..............(but.......Nik........you won't get found in faa search unless you change the format of your tags under your pix.........for each word, then put a comma....otherwise yours look like all just one very long keyword.......check mine, to see what I mean.....nice to meet you)

EDIT: Well done re your keywords fix.

This was sold

I like Wonderful World Nik. It looks like a nuclear cloud in the desert but not sure what you mean. I guess that is what Art is all about, different interpretations. Nuclear cloud? I like it but I don't like it if you know what I mean.

“..sure! And get sent to the sin-bin? “

Hectors…

Stay passively-aggressive let the double entendre be your only means of defense against the boot that crushes freedom.
Passive aggressive is an oxymoron, by the way.
Tell it like it is , who can tell. Speaking of Tell, best to leave on a high note. Check out the high note at 220.
http://youtu.be/ZTxUm_LVprU

absolutely jim its a ll subjective

sorry double post.

I listened, Charles..........thank you for the musical interlude, the high like no other, that one experiences when hearing the glorious voice...........oh, I loved that ! Sent it to two friends here just now, though I hope the wait till daytime to listen, because it might wake the neighbours at this hour - there.

Maybe, if you hyphenate passive-aggressive thus, then it isn't an oxymoron anymore, and comes back to life as a single entity,an escape from predictability,boredom,hypocrisy,evil,cruelty, to name just a few "qualities' oxymoronic - ism.

Here's a painting by member Omar Hafidi..called "Wicked"..........I think it fits the genre of which this thread speaks..........



" The treachery of a demon is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.....".......The Description:

any more?

At dawn on August 21, 1863, 12 year old David Anderson's life and world changed forever when war came to his home, just outside of Lawrence, Kansas. Although too young to fight in the guerrilla war that became known as "Bleeding Kansas", David was drafted by the local freight man to take over his delivery route, so that the driver could fight in this war of neighbor against neighbor.

Leaving his childhood behind, David climbed into the freight wagon and in an actual 'rites of passage' successfully delivered his cargo to Salt Lake City, Utah. This triumphant arrival occurred just as the local Methodists minister's daughter was crossing the street and young David was immediately smitten. Her name was Rose and David called her his "Rose of the Valley". One thing leads to another and the former Irish Catholic boy returned home a man, with a new career (freight driver), a new bride and a new religion, changing forever not only his life but the lives of all his descendants including myself.

War changes all of us forever but rarely in the way we expect. Ideological differences that you assume war will settle still exist today and are even compounded by the scars of events like this raid. But inevitably in war boyhoods are lost, and futures are changed forever.
--Mary Ellen Anderson

Take a stroll through time in my hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas is the only city in the United States that was formed entirely for political purposes just prior to the American Civil War. Here is an architectural and vehicular history of the town along Vermont Street that was echoed across the country. I couldn't help but be struck by the progression: a church (belief), a library (community), and a microwave tower (a voice).

This is the story of each of our lives. We come together under a belief system, form a community, and take our voice out into the world.
--mary ellen anderson

Who is that strange man who lives in apartment #5 ? Someone on the fringe of society? I hope he is just a little different and not bizarre.

nice^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Unconventional people always get shot...
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/androgynous-shot-through-chaim-nissim.html

or bruised.
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/androgynous-chaim-nissim.html

in Sydney, an area first developed during 'settlement' long ago, is now called The Rocks..........it has the most interesting mixed bag of historical evidence of change that happened here. The Rocks is now 'valuable' property, being directly on the Harbour/water's edge. The earlier houses, rows of them, were workers cottages given as entitlements, now kept up by local council , the rates are subsidized. But......the increased value of waterfront property challenges the State support of these cottages - signs up everywhere 'save our houses', to no avail.......have seen/heard of this happening everywhere to run-down waterfronts that suddenly realize their potential...and,
out go current residents, down come the historic houses, up go 30storey apts,businesses........
Here's a shot I got of a u-turn where the desolation still exists.....the world has passed this place by.........and it is actually hewn out of those staunch sandstone cliffs......not a pretty sight........back to the future..........

OK, it looks like a copy of Caravaggio (and is tagged so) but if you look carefully, there are very little similarities with the "original". It's drawn from a life model. The face was wiped off, what was where the lamb is now was also wiped off. The real scene was very controversial.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/strange-saint-2-chaim-nissim.html

http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1551451


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Vivian,

Thank you. This way of posting works for me in the Internet cafe but not on my smartphone. I can't afford a computer :(

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