It was sad to see the hysterical reaction of the political parties to works by controversial artist Giorgos Gavriel, most of which lambasted his paintings. The art was dismissed as “blasphemy,” a “provocation to society,” and “obscene.” The paintings could be all these things as well as offensive, iconoclastic, artistically crude and aesthetically worthless, but these are still no justifications for banning them and making threats against the artist and
