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One of Chris Ofili's most controversial works returns to London this week when a mid-career retrospective of the Brit artist's works opens at Tate Britain (until 16 May).
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The most iconic painting within Chris Ofili's groundbreaking oeuvre and amongst the defining works of the YBA generation, The Holy Virgin Mary dates from a seminal moment in the artist's career that saw him rise to international fame amidst a frenzy of media activity and public controversy. Executed in 1996, set against a golden background awash with a tapestry of iridescent pointillist.
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``The Holy Virgin Mary,'' a painting by Chris Ofili, is part of the "Sensation" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. While Ofili's painting is the one most frequently mentioned in criticism of the Brooklyn show, other works that have drawn fire also use organic materials, including a shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde, a bust of a man made.
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Chris Ofili, (born October 10, 1968, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England), British painter and sculptor known for his multilayered paintings that marry the sacred with the profane. Ofili gained notoriety early in his career for his controversial use of elephant dung and provocative imagery, but his work transcends shock value.
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Chris Ofili (b. 1968) , The Holy Virgin Mary Christie's
Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996. COURTESY CHRISTIE'S The Museum of Modern Art in New York has received Chris Ofili's storied painting The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) as a gift from.
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Sensation When the personal collection of British advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi went on tour in an exhibition called Sensation in 1997, viewers should have known to brace themselves for controversy.
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Chet Gold: Right, right. But the controversy was about how this piece of artwork was against the idea of what the Holy Virgin Mary was to Catholics and Giuliani in the city at the time. Chemi Rosado-Seijo: That's Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of the city from '94 to 2001.
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Chris Ofili The Holy Virgin Mary 1996 Not on view Depicted on a lush, glittering ground of shimmering orange resin that recalls the gold leaf of religious icons, Ofili's Virgin Mary is resplendent, majestic, and imperious yet also suffused with sexual potency.
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In October of 1999, Sensation opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where it was Chris Ofili's iconic painting, The Holy Virgin Mary that incited the most heated debate. Mayor Rudy Giuliani threatened to close the city-funded institution on the grounds that this artwork was offensive to religious viewers. Two months later, the painting, which.
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The Holy Virgin Mary is a mixed media painting created by Chris Ofili in 1996 that utilizes elephant dung and pornographic images. It was one of the works included in the Sensation exhibition in London, Berlin and New York in 1997-2000.
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What's changed? Alastair Sooke explains. "Ambitious", "vibrant", "gorgeous": these were just three of the adjectives marshalled by American art critics to salute the mid-career retrospective of the.
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A psychedelic rainbow ground of dots, lazy paisleys, and the faces of Richard Pryor, Little Richard, and Louis Armstrong (among others) is ornamented with elephant dung. These clumps are adorned with the names of Miles Davis, Diana Ross, James Brown, and Cassius Clay.
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Christopher Ofili, CBE (born 10 October 1968) is a British painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was Turner Prize -winner and one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in the city of Port of Spain.
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The Holy Virgin Mary, mixed-media painting on linen that was created in 1996 by British artist Chris Ofili. The painting, one of Ofili's earliest artworks, created a sensation and brought the artist both fame and notoriety. Ofili, whose parents had immigrated to Britain from Nigeria, attended Roman Catholic schools as a child.
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The Holy Virgin Mary Chris Ofili Date: 1996 Style: Neo-Expressionism Genre: figurative Media: collage, mixed media Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US Dimensions: 253 x 182.2 cm The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) is likely the most famous and most controversial artwork by Chris Ofili.
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1 of 5 Summary of Chris Ofili Chris Ofili is famous for shocking the world by using elephant dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary, however as well as being provocative, his work is embroiled in a nuanced and complex set of religious and socio-political issues.