>Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈvɛːra], meaning "Spring") is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary). It has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world",[1] and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art".[2]
Not in the least. Controversy doesn't mean offense. The controversies around the painting relate to its interpretation, to who the model for the main figure might be, to the reasons for the number of variety of plants in the painting... none of which offer offense.
Controversy and debate do not have to be offensive or even acrimonious, and controversies can arise around a subject like a painting without arising because of any offense given in the painting.
Many cultures would regard the content of the painting to be inappropriate though.
Offense doesn't need to mean that it's meant to shock.
I suspect most mainstream AI art generators would refuse to replicate it. Doing so would "offend" the original art.
But a human artist could, perhaps a talented woman flips the gender.
Humans will always be able to challenge us in ways AIs can't.
At home and around close friends I often speak in AAVE. It's apart of my culture and at a core level, me.
When an AI rap generator decides it can't do AAVE, it's saying the very identity that created rap in the first place is offense. I don't expect a masterpiece like Illmatic, but I've yet to hear anything decent from an AI rap generator.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(Botticelli)
If it's described as controversial, it obviously offended someone if not today, in the past.