By Michael Coren2024-07-12T13:32:00
Michael Coren is no fan of this “insulting” painting. But the very fact it was allowed to be displayed tells us something important about the influence of Christian beliefs on the West, he says
Art, they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
Depends on the beholder I suppose, but I see nothing of any merit, originality, or genuine provocation in a painting called Jesus Speaks to the Daughters of Jerusalem, that depicts Jesus on the road to Calvary, disfigured with a Looney Tunes cartoon face.
Artist Phil James’ work is allegedly about, “reimagining and re-presenting historical painting and sculptural forms” to “generate a sense both of the familiar and the uncomfortable through the displacement of notions of time, place, and history combined with the seemingly seamless interweaving of somewhat obscured pop-cultural references.” Yeah, right!
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