In the words of the Daily Telegraph newspaper:
Oh, the dullness of artists who try to outrage. Gil Vicente is the Brazilian artist who’s desperately tried to garner publicity and higher commission prices by displaying a series of pictures of assassination attempts on the Queen, George W Bush and the Pope....
The sad thing is, he’s rather a skilled artist – his figures are well-drawn – unlike so many of the shock merchants....
But the problem is that artistic skill doesn’t necessarily go with intelligence. Vicente’s justification for his message is straight out of the GCSE school of politics: “Because they kill so many other people, it would be a favour to kill them, understand? Why don’t people in power and in the elite die?”
Mmmm, good luck with that analysis, Gil. Who’ll run countries, religions and monarchies in their place? Dim artists with schoolboy opinions?
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