Piss Christ
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Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition, which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.
Scandals in art
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Scandals in art occur when members of the public are shocked or offended by a work of art at the time of its first exhibition or publication,.
Olympia by Manet (1863)
Upper-class Parisians felt threatened by the dignified size of the canvas used to depict The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet in 1857.
Venus of Urbino
Saint Matthew and the Angel (1602) was refused for its triviality, the realism of the saint, and the ambiguity of the angel (original painting destroyed during World War II).