"Piss Christ" it is one of the most famous works and the most controversial one made by the artist and American photographer Andres Serrano. The full title of the work is "Immersion (Piss Christ)". It is a picture taken in 1987 in Cibachrome print 60x40 cm. The presentation is a small plastic crucifix and wood submerged in a glass of the artist 's own urine. The photography belong to a series that Serrano had made that involved several classical figurines immersed in various fluids like milk, blood, tears, semen and urine. Piss Christ, won the "Award for Visual Arts" competition held in Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art 's, which was sponsored in part by the "National Endowment for the Arts," which is an agency of the
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In his comments, Serrano has not assigned an overtly political content of Piss Christ and related, arts; however, he emphasized its ambiguity and he said that while this work is not intended to denounce religion, refers to a marketing or cheapening of Christian icons in contemporary culture. In other words, the idea is that people have lost the meaning of religion especially when it comes to Christianity. Nowadays, it seems that been a religious is more about the money than faith. An example could be from the religious channels, who often sell stuff openly in between preaching and prayer. It should not be about using religion for people 's own profit and I think this is part of the message on Piss Christ. In a famous interview with the journalist and public commentator Bill Moyers, Sister Wendy Beckett, nun consecrated virgin in art expert, came to the defense of the work Christ in urine. When Bill Moyers asked her if she had not felt offended when looking at the photograph and if she felt that the work denigrates the central figure of their faith (Catholic), Sister Wendy …show more content…
Sister Beckett doesn 't consider the piece of art as blaspheme. On the contrary, Piss Christ is about Jesus ' followers and what Serrano is doing is to call to people 's mind an important lesson they usually forget. If a person chooses a life of perdition, then he has pissed on Christ. Therefore, he has transformed the meaning of the Cross and exchanged the Path of Salvation by the path of damnation, hell over heaven. In addition, it seems that the picture actually increased Sister Beckett devotion to Jesus because she saw it a symbol of what our culture has done to Christ; in other words, the way contemporary society sees Christ and the values that it
In his comments, Serrano has not assigned an overtly political content of Piss Christ and related, arts; however, he emphasized its ambiguity and he said that while this work is not intended to denounce religion, refers to a marketing or cheapening of Christian icons in contemporary culture. In other words, the idea is that people have lost the meaning of religion especially when it comes to Christianity. Nowadays, it seems that been a religious is more about the money than faith. An example could be from the religious channels, who often sell stuff openly in between preaching and prayer. It should not be about using religion for people 's own profit and I think this is part of the message on Piss Christ. In a famous interview with the journalist and public commentator Bill Moyers, Sister Wendy Beckett, nun consecrated virgin in art expert, came to the defense of the work Christ in urine. When Bill Moyers asked her if she had not felt offended when looking at the photograph and if she felt that the work denigrates the central figure of their faith (Catholic), Sister Wendy …show more content…
Sister Beckett doesn 't consider the piece of art as blaspheme. On the contrary, Piss Christ is about Jesus ' followers and what Serrano is doing is to call to people 's mind an important lesson they usually forget. If a person chooses a life of perdition, then he has pissed on Christ. Therefore, he has transformed the meaning of the Cross and exchanged the Path of Salvation by the path of damnation, hell over heaven. In addition, it seems that the picture actually increased Sister Beckett devotion to Jesus because she saw it a symbol of what our culture has done to Christ; in other words, the way contemporary society sees Christ and the values that it