Many would look at Janine Antoni's art and may consider it strange and possibly controversial in ways. The idea of sort of nursing a cow as she sat in a bath trough while cows continued drink around her is a match ready to spark criticism to those with a conservative eye for art. As for myself, I appreciated the concept involved in her unusual style as an artist. From the video it appeared as though a lot of her art attracted towards humans becoming the product of what we consume. In two instances she used cattle as a metaphorical subject that seemed to either de-humanize humans or make human of the cattle. I took it as like myself, she must be a vegetarian, so I found a bit of connection with her work when she used raw hide drapped over her body to create a hollow silouhette of herself. The concept seemed to portray that our outer qualities are so much valued that the inner qualities seem only to be hollow, much like how we see cattle.

Matthew Barney's work reminds me sort of cirque du soleil in a sense that his films are in a matter of a dreamlike/nightmarish state with an erotic undertone. What I admire about his work is the details in the costuming. The dead horse race scene, as disturbing as it was, had an intricate quality about the way the horses costumes where sheared and painted in a way to make their bodies seem to be decayed. His films also seem to rely heavily on the visual aspect and less of the audio. I'm curious about watching a full length film of his and seeing how this effects me being able to follow the concept.

After getting a bit of insight of these two artist I've come to the belief that controversy is an art in its own.