Paintings and Theology
Benjamin Myers has more on his essentials for theologians (novels, poems, music). This time paintings with help of Kim Fabricius.
Here's one I like: Max Ernst, Virgin Spanking Infant Jesus before Three Witnesses (1926). It isn't necessarily the most orthordox but it does raise the interesting question of who has done the wrong deed(s). And why is Mary wearing red?
posted by James Crossley at 13.1.06
9 Comments:
And who are the people in the window.
7:14 PM
As I've accidentally just put on the comments section of Benjamin's blog: One is Max Ernst the other two are apparently André Breton (writer) and Paul Éluard (poet).
7:23 PM
"I'm not the messiah, just a very naughty boy"
10:40 PM
I'd comment on Mary's shirt, but I don't want to offend any fans of the Virgin.
2:18 AM
Actually, red and blue were the traditional colors associated with Mary for many centuries. Blue and white are a more modern (last couple of centuries) innovation. Why? No clue.
2:33 AM
red is only half of it - the off the shoulder top completes the seductive effect. It works: that child is no child of her husband.
6:04 AM
That's an interesting point Mark Anthony: I had no idea. I would like to know if Ernst knew about the traditional colours. If not then red may have some significance and possibly not too orthodox itself I wonder?
3:35 PM
I think the woman in red is the FA (thus the red top), spanking Sven the would-be Messiah who has clearly dropped his crown. The three witnesses are David O'Leary, Rio, and Owen.
Anyone care for a guess at the gaffer's blood alcohol level when he made such statements? Was he just bored on a yacht in the Persian Gulf (I would be), looking to amuse himself without breaking any cultural taboos?
9:12 PM
Brian built a bridge with the beams of the sun,
And over He gone, He gone He;
And after followed the three jolly jerdins,
And drownded they were all three.
Mary mild, Mary mild called home her Child,
And laid our Brian across her knee,
And with a whole handful of bitter
withy She gave Him slashes three.
(corrupted plagiarism)
2:03 PM
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