{"id":3242,"date":"2007-08-30T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/artist-morphs-osama-bin-laden.html"},"modified":"2007-08-30T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T21:24:00","slug":"artist-morphs-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/08\/artist-morphs-osama-bin-laden.html","title":{"rendered":"Artist morphs Osama bin Laden into Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s too bad that art has been reduced to this type of simplicity. It’s a shame that artists strive to move people to shock instead of awe over their work. There is nothing awe-inspiring about this insipid work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

THE artist behind a controversial work depicting terrorism mastermind Osama bin Laden morphing into Jesus today invited those considering her work to look a little more deeply than the obvious comparison of good and evil.
\nQueensland artist Priscilla Bracks denied she had deliberately set out to be offensive.
\n“Absolutely not, no, no. I am not interested in being offensive. I am interested in having a discussion and asking questions about how we think about our world and what we accept and what we don’t accept,” she said.
\nBracks’ work and a statue of the Virgin Mary wearing an Islamic burqa by Sydney artist Luke Sullivan have been entered into Australia’s top religious art competition, the Blake Prize.
\n[…]
\nBracks told The Daily Telegraph<\/em> her double portrait was not meant to compare Jesus with bin Laden, but was a commentary on the way the terror leader was treated in the media.
\nShe was concerned bin Laden would be unintentionally glorified in years to come.
\n[…]<\/p>\n

Sydney artist Luke Sullivan, who created the Virgin Mary piece entitled The Fourth Secret of Fatima<\/em>, said his work was not meant to be controversial but provocative. <\/p>\n

“It poses the question of what’s the future of religion,” Sullivan said.
\n“They (religions) are hegemonic in their nature<\/span>.
\n“They can be all-encompassing and powerful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one who knows Christianity and Islam could say they are “hegemonic in their nature.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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