5. Mel Ramos – Monterey Jackie
This loathsome artist paints naked, pneumatic women emerging from candy-bar wrappers and banana peels, riding oversize cigars like horses, Ramos’ art could hardly be deemed subtle, but is perhaps toying with the lubricious responses of his viewers, teasing the edge between acceptable and unacceptable taste… or perhaps prodding it with a large stick.
4. Jeff Koons – Made In Heaven
When Jeff Koons married porn star La Cicciolina the world gasped. When the artist started making sexually explicit art with her – the art world fainted. These questionable works of art were a series from the controversial Pop artist known more formally as “Made in Heaven” portraying Mr Koons having various forms of sex with his soon-to-be (and later ex-) wife, politician Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, the work could be seen simply as bad art. The art world certainly thought so.