Scandal in the work of Mapplethorpe

The history of art is marked by scandals: from Masaccio to the representation of body art, any change in the conception of the work causes scandal. This was true for six centuries in the Vatican and was always the case when Courbet was accused of threatening public order and the impressionists of having a deranged brain. Today, who better than Mapplethopre to present the scandal? From his nudes to his portraits and self-portraits, from his floral still lifes to his most famous and controversial subjects, Mapplethorpe is the artist who most defines scandal. Innovative and daring, his work continues to resonate after his untimely death in 1989. The artist's singular use of provocative, homoerotic and other themes have become commonplace in our culture and with dominant echoes in various fields (cinema, advertising...) What is scandal? What is it for? How is it provoked and for what purpose? And what can we learn from it when it is inspired by normality? Let's discover, through this research, the notion of scandal with our artist photographer Robert Mapplethope.