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Essay / Analysis of Los Intocables - 983
Los Intocables by Erik Ravelo Los Intocables (The Intouchables) is a controversial art series by Cuban artist Erik Ravelo. Ravelo uses powerful images to draw attention to and comment on the exploitation of children around the world. These images are provocative and draw public attention to important issues occurring in the world around them. Los Intocables shocks the viewer and opens their eyes to all the horrors that children face in our world. Together, these images create an effective piece that shocks the viewer and causes the people who watched it to desire change. Erik Ravelo is a contemporary Cuban artist known for creating works of art that disrupt the normal and make his audiences uncomfortable. His play Los Intocables takes topics that no one wants to talk about and shines a light on them. The topics that Ravelo uses for his series are neither light: “In any rhetorical situation, there will be at least one determining requirement that functions as an organizing principle: it specifies the audience to be addressed and the change to be made” (Blitzer 7 ). In the Los Intocables case, Ravelo's audience is people who are ignorant of the mistreatment of the world's children, and the change he wanted to make is to make the world better for children. Ravelo was able to use Facebook to share his photos 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 natives of each respective country, but all the people of the world. Using topics culturally related to not just one but multiple countries allowed Ravelo to reach a wider audience. Ravelo wanted to open the eyes of as many people as possible in order to create a