Title: 10 Controversial Artworks That Changed Art History | Artland Magazine
Headings: 10 Controversial Artworks That Changed Art History
10 Controversial Artworks That Changed Art History
Édouard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, 1863
Marcel Duchamp – Fountain, 1917
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles or Number 11, 1952
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987
Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995
Tracy Emin, My Bed, 1998
Damien Hirst, For the Love of God, 2007

Content: In 2011, a print of the piece was vandalized during an exhibition in Avignon, France. Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989
The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this billboard for the Public Art Fund (PAF) in New York, aimed to criticize the museum institutions for under-representing female artists and objectifying women. The PAF rejected this piece, deeming it “too provocative.” Instead, the Guerilla Girls rented advertising space on NYC buses and ran the ad themselves. Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995
Ai Weiwei is one of the great provocateurs of our time, whose work heavily criticizes the Chinese government and fights for freedom of expression. Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn depicts the artist as he smashes a 200-year-old ceremonial urn, of significant symbolic and cultural worth. Many called this an act of desecration, to which Weiwei replied: “