Corpus Hypercubus: Your thoughts?

[DBT]

Here you go. Scroll down to see the sketch and a description of it compared to Dali’s

www.carmelite.com/saints/john/b3h.shtml

Dave

 

[Matariel]

Here you go. Scroll down to see the sketch and a description of it compared to Dali’s

www.carmelite.com/saints/john/b3h.shtml

Dave

Very interesting. The drawing by St. John seems very crude. But the same idea seems to be present in both images. Oddly, if you look at the bottom of Dali’s image, there is a man and a boat?

Odd.

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[Matariel]

I just took a look at St. John of the Cross’ sketch . . . nails, blood and agony are apparent. It would appear Dali’s intent was to take the suffering out of the Cross, perhaps?

Dave.

Why would he do this, if this is, in fact, his intention? Was he trying to make Christ seem transcedent? Perhaps… Hm…

 

[DBT]

Why would he do this, if this is, in fact, his intention? Was he trying to make Christ seem transcedent? Perhaps… Hm…

Well I don’t know if it was his intention . . . I was simply making a guess that could be totally wrong. The description on the web site I linked talks about this a little:

• the perspective from the Father is the same on both
• St. John’s depiction is of the suffering servant, Dali’s comes across more like a “Greek God” - in their opinion.

Dave