After the elephant dung: Chris Ofili

Chris Ofili: 'The studio is a laboratory, not a factory.' Photograph: Horace Ové
I may been biased on my thoughts on Chris Ofili, in one Contextual studies seminar I quote myself here , I said ‘I found his work offensive’ without having looked or seen his work. The reason for this was someone had told me he uses Elephant Dung to assimilate his feelings about Africa since he is originally from Nigeria.
After doing a lot of research my feelings towards his work have changed, mainly because I can relate to some of the things he said in this article HERE its a very long article but worth a read.
I find the concepts of his portraits very stimulating because there is a long story there, for my unit X I intend to go and see hi work at the Saatchi if he is still showing there (i will do some research)

Art's great nudes have gone skinny ( not my words)

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has taken some great (and, to be honest, not so great) paintings of nudes from the past and reimagined what they would look like if their bodies conformed to what the 21st-century thinks of as an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing – and quite shocking in what they say about our modern attitudes to women's bodies.
Click on the link HERE to see the photoshoped images of of great paintings reimagined