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The Holy Virgin Mary: The Brooklyn Museum Of Art
They are a few artists that display arts that make people uncomfortable or questioned themselves as to why they wanted to see their display. Some of the arts bring out our emotion. For example, Chris Ofili painted an art piece called The Holy Virgin Mary, and it caused a lot of controversies in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts. He got positive review from other countries, but when he displayed in the Brooklyn Museum he got a lot of people angry especially the mayor.

The museum is public, which means any age could see this art, which I don’t think is a great idea because I bet some kids and even teens were confused and shocked as to why the artist painted Mary like that especially using elephant dung and showing inappropriate part of her body.

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