Once again, Christmas songs, decorations deonstrate that modern religious art is really bad. No Rembrandt or DaVinci here only the kind of stuff ala Thomas Kincaid or Hallmark. Blech.
It reminds me of the time I went to a vintage store with a friend and came across a box plastered with a hideous depiction of Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane but he looked more like he's constipated than in existential agony. In this case I think he realized he was getting a raw deal from daddy.
Please, I've changed my mind, I didn't realize it was going to be this ugly. Can I just get a bitch slap instead? Maybe talk Peter into it, he'll fall for anything.
I didn't have any money to buy this classic kitsch alas. My friend returned later to find it gone but gifted me with a similar one for my birthday.
Plastered on the lid is picture of the lord kneeling, looking like a young Charlton Heston in a beard and white robe, his hands clasped in supplication. Inside was a small pad and pencil with a note "Why have you forsaken us....again?" ( we have the same twisted humor and lack of religious zeal). It turns out this was a old music box that could only manage an occasional plunk of "An invitation to a waltz".
Clearly an inappropriate piece of music but then any music would be --awkward.
Disclaimer: this is not a jab at Christianity or the real
Jesus, he's cool, this art is not. Also, I don't know who the artist is.
2 comments:
It's not very good, but the illustrator has more skill than I do. It's not easy to do this kind of thing, even that badly. I don't know if they were religious or not, but it was just done for a buck.
I was a bit struck the you and JC were striking the same physical attitude.... I think maybe you should put a bomber cap on JC as well
... With JC as my 'Co-pilot".
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