David Alfaro Siqueiros, "Tropical America" mural

- Mexican peasnt being crucifies by eagle, shows how mexico is being oppressed by U.S

- 6 months to a year was whitewashed

- First large scale mural in US

Judith Baca, The Great Wall of Los Angeles: The Division of the Barrios and Chaves Ravine

- Depicts freeway diving families

La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra, Toping Student Center, USC

- Lynched figure stirred controversy

Meeting of Syles, Los Angeles, 2007, Manone

- Gloria Molina(politician) didn't approve of meeting, and had all images whitewashed, even though they had permits, said it "promoted gang violence".

Guillermo Gomez Pena and Roberto Sifuentes, Temple of Confessions

- perfomance art, get rise out of people

Manet, Dejeuner sur l herbe, (luncheon on riverbank)

- naked women, are prostitutes, part of "salon of rejects" she is not a goddess, or part of mythological scene.

-Not naturalistic

Manet, Olympia, 1863

- Is a prostitute, looks at viewer, not ashamed by nudity, is cold, cat is reacting

-Based on venus of urbino

Whistler, Nocturne in Black & Gold, the Falling Rocket

- abstract, depicts fireworks at night

- had terrible critique, whislter sued based on libel, has to explain title, not view of italy, judege ruled in favor of whistler, but made him bankrupt.

Veronese, Feast in the house of Levi

- depicts last supper, has unsavory characters

- had to change title, didn't have to repaint it

- "didn't call out on righteous, but on the sinners" educating the critics that jesus would have eaten with the sinners, not the saints.

Chris Ofili, The holy virgin mary

- black skinned madonna, cutouts of porn and has elephant dung

-museum was sued, but museum retaliated used free speech as argument

Serranos Piss christ

-photo submerged crucifix in pee

- gov't funded

-nun feels this is what we've done to christ

Mapplethorpe, X and Y portfolio

- Homoerotic and massochisitic photos, would not be funded by NAA

-photos were seized