Sentence examples for shocking art from inspiring English sources

It was shocking art, and not always pretty.

The 21st of August is the anniversary of two shocking art thefts: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre 100 years ago, and Francisco de Goya's The Duke of Wellington taken from the National Gallery, London, exactly 50 years later.

The most shocking art theft in the last decade took place in 1990, when two men dressed as police officers talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in the middle of the night, bound and gagged the guards and made off with a priceless trove of items, including "The Concert" by Vermeer and "Storm on the Sea of Galilee," Rembrandt's only known seascape.

He likes shocking art that advertises itself.

Also, here's a thought, masturbation is not the best emblem of feminine power -- especially as Miles has already masturbated on the show for the "shocking art" challenge.

Pursue whatever forms of art you're naturally drawn too, but don't share particularly shocking art too openly - wait until you get a sense of a person's likes and dislikes before you introduce them to your weirder forms of entertainment.

That seemed to me a brilliant strategy, to stir up controversy that the no-longer-shocking art no longer can.

Surprisingly, the show has the opposite effect: the coolly cerebral space reinforces the distinction between the usual contrived "shock" art and these genuinely shocking amateur snapshots.

Tattoos serve as a means of expression for Lucy, no different from his sometimes-shocking art.

Beijing now has a small but active rock music scene, a large community of painters and sculptors, and a steady stream of sometimes shocking performance art.

What's more, standup comedy has made an all-but-accomplished journey in America from chintzy entertainment to legitimately shocking outsider art to, now, and perhaps finally, a kind of popular cultural criticism a development helped along to a great degree by Rock himself.