What is art? Some would say that art is communicating beauty. Some would say that it's an

expression of imagination and some that art is simply a work that has to be appreciated.

The United States government agreed that art is something that should be appreciated.

So in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson,

formed the National Endowment for the Arts

in order to fund artists in their pursuit

of making works that have to be appreciated.

One such artist that received a grant through the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts

was artist and photographer Andreas Serrano.

The National Endowment for the Arts has determined that the people of the

United States needed to appreciate Mr Serrano's art.

Mr Serrano's pictures involve bodily fluid in some way.

Depicting, for example, blood,

sometimes menstrual blood, semen feces, or human breast milk.

He is also known for his erotic photography and he even has a display where he has pictures of corpses.

Mr Serrano was chosen to receive grants totaling $15,000 in 1986 to produce his art for the American people, paid for by the American

people.

In 1987 he unveiled his masterpiece that the government funded. It was titled,

Piss Christ. The photograph shows a Catholic crucifix with Jesus on the

cross, submerged in a jar of Mr Serrano's own urine.

In response to the outcry from Christians

for the blasphemous photograph,

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