Looks like a milk chocolate jesus has stirred up much controversy with the christians... too bad they don't sell miniatures at the market.... yummyyyyyyy.... comments?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/30/chocolate.jesus.ap/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6509127.stm
4 comments:
I can understand why people would be pissed off- an extension of their God has been ridiculed. No matter the intent of the artist their work can still hurt someone, just like a person can say that they aren't racist but don't realize that they are unintentionally hurting someone when they wear a chief shirt. They do have a right to protest just as much as the artist has a right to display their work- so I guess good for both them.
ah i dont know, i wouldn't say the intent was necessarily malicious. i think part of the beauty of art is the ability to provoke and stimulate. and so i agree with you in part...right on for the protests because they are participating in such provocations, at the same time if artists were more concerned with offending people than mediating their truths i betit would make for a bland life.
If people are allowed to sell chocolate bunnies and marshmellow bunnies and jelly bunnies in order to celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead, then why can't we buy chocolate Jesus? It only makes perfect sense. It calls attentions to the consumerism rampant in Christianity, and it should be a call on Christians to review their religion and the media representations of their religion with a critical eye. But they were probably mostly offended at the suggestion that Jesus was black.
I'm not saying the intent was malicious... I'm saying the artists intent doesn't matter to the viewer. What matters is if people take it as a bad thing or not. It sucks- but that's how things tend to work.
In high school I did a painting of a hand holding a rosary and from it was a head dangling. The background was washed rainbow. I'll post it sometime.
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