Is this an alien or a horror movie monster? WHAT!? THIS is suppose to be Jesus!?

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Is it an extra-terrestrial being floating down from it’s spaceship? Could it be the latest gore-covered monster from the mind of horror film-maker Wes Craven? Is it a nightmare version of a decaying dead body?

From the Diocese of Belfort-Montbeliard, France, I give to you,** the 12th Station of the Cross. **

My take can be found here.
 
How horrid. Absolutely disgusting and they should be ashamed of themselves for putting that tripe up.
 
They are all awful!

Station 10 makes christ look like a naked woman.

The rest make him look like an alien.

IF this is art, I’m just not getting it.
 
max37 said:
Station 10 makes christ look like a naked woman.
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Or a pubescent boy. But yes, I think they are ugly and would distract from worship, rather than enhance it.

Hmmm… I recently read a news story that art thieves have been targetting European churches to steal their art works. Perhaps these Stations of the Cross were intended to be theft-proof.
 
We don’t know the artists mindset or his inspiration or whatever. However, we can see the results. I myself find it unusual and almost disturbing. The Passion of Christ was truly miserable, I cannot comprehend it, but to display the emotion in this way is not appropriate for a chuch (I don’t know if this is displayed in a church or cathedral, but I hope not).

I can understand the scenery or background revolving around these type of images maybe, but to portray Jesus Himself like in those images does not seem to be honouring Him. But I am not in position to make any decisions of course, nor did I put in any effort in that attempt.

It seems as if the artist seemed to be in a suicidal or deeply dark mindset while painting these images. For prayer purposes, images of the stations of the cross need to be more clear, and actually comparable to the station of the cross prayers. These imahes seem to be more about the artist, than the Passion.
 
Well, at least the artist didn’t festoon it with elephant poop or suspend it in urine…although he’ll never get a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that way.
 
Hideous. Absolutely hideous. 😦 :mad: 😦

I know there are many styles of art, although frankly I just don’t get modern abstract art, but this thing is just absolutely hideous.

Why do people insist on taking something sacred and making it into something bizarre? I mean, if I draw an apple and make it look like a pumpkin, and color it orange, I can call it an apple until the end of time but it will still look like a pumpkin.

In the same way, I have seen some Crucifixion art that I would just throw out, and it takes a heck of a lot to make me throw out something religious!

The most charitable thing I can think is that some people cannot seem to bring themselves to think of the Crucifixion as looking extremely like how it is portrayed in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. To all those who have commented, “But it was so bloody!” or some such statement, I respond: “So was the original.”

The least charitable thing I can say of the artist is that he is seriously in need of some help, either from an ophthalmologist or a psychiatrist. Either that, or he’s anti-Christian. Either way, he should have his fingers crazy-glued together so he can no longer paint anything!

In any event, this horrid thing should never appear in any place of worship, and it’s a wonder that the parishioners haven’t ripped those awful things off the walls.

If that’s what France thinks is art conducive to worship, I’ll take the good old USA any day!

*“I wish that my heart could beat, that I could live and breathe only for Jesus, I wish that my tongue could utter no other name than that of Jesus; that my eye could see only Jesus; that my pen could write only about Jesus, and that my thoughts could soar to nothing but Jesus. I have often wondered where on earth there might be something on which I could center my love. But neither on earth nor in heaven do I find any such thing but only my beloved Jesus… I am the fruit of your passion, Jesus, born of your wounds. O Jesus, seek me in love; I no longer possess anything; you have stolen my heart…” *- St. Gemma Galgani
 
Interesting to say the least, but hey they are French. They are always on the cutting edge of art. I personally am however 800 years behind the time.
 
Those are beautiful.

Do you all expect the depiction of the condemnation, torture, death, and entombment of a man to be all rainbows and fluffy clouds and bunnies? Was the blood spilt on the road to Calvary actually fruit punch? Crucifixion is nightmare fuel for a damn good reason, and the expressionist style serves admirably to drive that point home. It should disturb you, who believe we killed God! What could be more horrifying to a believer?

Bowdlerize your religion, and you’ll be left worshiping nothing.
 
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Those are beautiful.

Do you all expect the depiction of the condemnation, torture, death, and entombment of a man to be all rainbows and fluffy clouds and bunnies? Was the blood spilt on the road to Calvary actually fruit punch? Crucifixion is nightmare fuel for a damn good reason, and the expressionist style serves admirably to drive that point home. It should disturb you, who believe we killed God! What could be more horrifying to a believer?

Bowdlerize your religion, and you’ll be left worshiping nothing.
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I agree, the “alien” look is not in all stations. This is a presentation of the Stations in a more abstract, non-traditional way, but still meaningful and how the artist imagines it. It is unusual but the more you look at it it becomes just as spiritual as the other artistic styles we are used to.
 
Caveman said:
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Is it an extra-terrestrial being floating down from it’s spaceship? Could it be the latest gore-covered monster from the mind of horror film-maker Wes Craven? Is it a nightmare version of a decaying dead body?

From the Diocese of Belfort-Montbeliard, France, I give to you,** the 12th Station of the Cross. **

My take can be found here.
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Dude, your blog is hilarious. Thanks.
 
ughh…not surprised! Afterall, is this so different from the child-like scrawlings in the OCP issue? Compare this artwork to the artwork in the TLM Missal. Say what you will about tradition and traditionalists; but it remains, over the last 40 years, much more was lost to the Catholic Church than simply the TLM.
 
Is that a Masonic symbol in station five? It appears that France has have a lot more to worry about than whether the Tridentine Mass is reinstated
 
Mirdath said:
Those are beautiful.

Do you all expect the depiction of the condemnation, torture, death, and entombment of a man to be all rainbows and fluffy clouds and bunnies? Was the blood spilt on the road to Calvary actually fruit punch? Crucifixion is nightmare fuel for a damn good reason, and the expressionist style serves admirably to drive that point home. It should disturb you, who believe we killed God! What could be more horrifying to a believer?

Bowdlerize your religion, and you’ll be left worshiping nothing.
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Was Christ actually a naked women? I would think perhaps the first requirement for stations of the Cross would be that they are recognizable. If a person didn’t know they were stations would they have any idea whatsoever what they depict. ?

I will admit, however, that to a Goth these might be quite beautiful and I say that with no criticism at all.
 
Hmm, not my cup of tea but there is at least a thematic continuity…oops that was before I saw Station X. At least they haven’t added a fifteenth station.
 
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