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Controversial Work

Andres Serrano, Bloodstream, 1987, http://www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_workdetail.asp?aid=424202827&gid=424202827&cid=121254&wid=425106369&page=1

As the name of this image states, here we see a bloodstream. This work is categorized under Serrano’s works of “Body Fluids”. It is evident why this image is controversial. On one hand, it is rather gruesome to capture blood in an image, that’s not something you would expect to see in a piece of art. On the other hand, the abstraction of the bloodstream could be beautiful to some.

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