Arts Roundup: Christ Heads: Controversial and Mainstream
April 4th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
School of the Art Institute of Chicago student, David Cordero, 24, has sculpted the newest controversial contribution to religious art: Barack Obama as Jesus, pictured above.
[AP/CNN, HT: Tennessean and Fortifi@]
One gallery space, the Has Beans coffee shop, avoids controversies like Obama Jesuses by barring religious art altogether.
[The Orion]
Supersizing Christ: an eight feet by 10 feet head of Jesus by Warner Sallman, pictured below, is on exhibit at Wheaton College (Ill.).
[Evangelical Covenant Church]
This Christ head is interesting to compare to those of Roualt, who said, “I hope to paint a Christ so moving that those who see Him will be converted.” [Idle Speculations]
“I could take the safe route with a beautiful Jesus, but I just did my own style graphic and just a little bit of street art,” says Bree Hylton, 17. “I don’t like a lot of shading. I think it’s OK to be two-dimensional. Not everything has to be photorealistic.”
[Baytown Sun]
But at Iconia, we also champion amateur religious art, like this copy of El Greco by Jason Jones, which admittedly, has “a lot that could be changed with it.”
[All Day to Get There]
Also, don’t miss Teammac’s wonderful Christian drawings–very bold, very colorful.