Talk:Chris Ofili

message: Why doesn't this article discuss how, after the insult to the Virgin Mary, Catholics around the world were rioting and burning British embassies?
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:Despite the deliberately provocative comment above, there is a serious point, namely expanding the section on this controversy and covering religious reaction.
This is an article by about art it doesn;t concern the ficle world of conservative politicans. All that should say is that it is controversial nothing more. It is a fabulous piece of art.
:Tyrenius 13:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the OP was being facetious.  In other words, when "The Holy Virgin Mary" and Piss Christ came out, there were no death threats, no bombings, and the New York Times printed the pictures.  But when someone wanted even *think* about drawing a picture of the Prophet Muhammed, the whole world was on fire, and every company in the US was afraid for the lives of their employees if they dared to show a picture of the muslim prophet.  For the pictures that were offensive to Christianity, there was controversy and Christian religious leaders condemned these works, and conservatives moved for the NEA to be ended for having sponsored pictures, but no one got death threats, there were no bombings or riots.  Rifter0x0000 (talk) 01:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Black Madonna - religious protest

message: How relevant is to mention this with regard to the specific episode?  One would need a quite strong and particular link to offset the obvious NPOV potential bias and clear promotion of the non directly related commercial interest of the book writer.
I totally agree and changed the reference to make it at least more NPOV. In the end, I would vote for removal. 
Typewriter 16:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  100 People Who Are Screwing Up America 

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message: This was in the second edit of the article, which filled in the infobox, so it doesn't look like vandalism, but it's surely not correct. 24.27.63.92 (talk) 05:47, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Field: ELEPHANT DUNG 

message: This article is merely descriptive and does not tie observations to explanations. It need to be reworked to answer the following questions:
"In 1992 he won a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Zimbabwe. Ofili studied cave paintings there, which had some effect on his style."
- In what way, and why is this important?
"Though Ofili's detractors often state that he "splatters"[2] elephant dung on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot-like supports on which the paintings stand."
- Why does O use elephant dung?
"Ofili's paintings also make reference to blaxploitation films and gangsta rap, seeking to question racial and sexual stereotypes in a humorous way. His work is often built up in layers of paint, resin, glitter, dung (mainly elephant) and other materials to create a collage."
- How does using resin, etc, and building it in layers, help O to question racial and sexual stereotypes?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesthecat (talk • contribs) 15:13, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explaining the Art 

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