Analysis Of Los Intocables

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Los Intocables by Erik Ravelo Los Intocables (The Untouchables) is a controversial art series by the Cuban artist Erik Ravelo. Ravelo uses powerful images to bring attention to and comment on the exploitation of children throughout the world. These images are provocative and bring to the audience’s attention important issues that are occurring in the world around them. Los Intocables shocks the viewer and opens his or her eyes to all the horrors children face in our world. These images together create an effective piece that upset the viewer and causes the people who looked at it to desire change. Erik Ravelo is a contemporary cuban artist notorious for creating artworks that disturb the normal and make his audience uncomfortable. His piece Los Intocables takes subjects that no one wants to talk about and brings them to the light. The subject matters Ravelo uses for his series are neither light “In any rhetorical situation there will be at least one controlling exigence which functions as the organizing principle: it specifies the audience to be addressed and the change to be effected” (Blitzer 7). In Los Intocables case Ravelo’s audience is people who are ignorant to the mistreatment of children of the world, and the change he wanted to effect is to make the world a better place for children. Ravelo was able to use Facebook to share his pictures all over the world. However, Ravelo’s pieces were deemed inappropriate and too grotesque and were removed. Shortly after his series was removed from Facebook, a petition was started to allow Ravelo to share his work on Facebook. Ravelo was trying to reach not only the native people of each respective country but all people of the world. Using subject matter that was culturally relative to not only one country but several allowed Ravelo to reach a broader audience. Ravelo wanted to open the eyes of as many people as possible in order to spark a

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