featuring President Barack Obama in a Christ-like pose, New York-based artist by Michael D’Antuono, politically charged “Artists on the Stump – the Road to the White House 2012", statement posted to the Catholic League website on Tuesday, exhorting the Soul Train Awards crowd to "give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama.". /Contents 4 0 R “Foxx’s epiphany is startling,” Donahue said in a statement. D45 1987 701'.1'7 ISBN 0-226-14324-4 (pbk.) The Sans of the Pure Cut 83 IV. Today is National Voter Registration Day! /Type /Page << << %PDF-1.5 It is one thing for the Italian nativity scene builder Ferrigno to include Obama as a figurine in this year’s crèche (it has regularly featured public persons such as Princess Diana), quite another for an angry artist to rip off Christian iconography for the purpose of making a cheap political statement. A painting featuring President Barack Obama in a Christ-like pose is getting poor reviews from some religious authorities, Fox News Radio reports. Donohue was even less amused by Foxx's comments. Currently on display at Boston's Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery as part of D'Antuono's politically charged “Artists on the Stump – the Road to the White House 2012" collection, the piece was actually supposed to debut several years ago at New York City’s Union Square. 4 0 obj Yet when it comes to their savior, President Obama, they not only pivot, they proselytize. 72,432 Christian adherents per 100,000 persons. stream While Heidegger sought to break away from representation, Heidegger remained humanist and anthropomorphic. The Parergon 37 III. /Parent 2 0 R /Length 5763 Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Barack Obama Depicted As Jesus: 'The Truth' Painting Draws Criticism For Controversial Metaphor (PHOTO). /F4 15 0 R endobj >> D’Antuono said he received 4,000 emails "mostly from the irate Christian Right who misinterpreted the art as blasphemy" and canceled the event, a decision he now regrets. /F3 12 0 R We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote! Click through the slideshow to see most and least Christian cities in the United States: Part of HuffPost Religion. %���� Most recently, actor Jamie Foxx drew flak when a pre-recorded BET special began with his exhorting the Soul Train Awards crowd to "give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama.". Art has the power to evoke the same emotions, thoughts, moral and The painting by New York-based artist by Michael D’Antuono is titled "The Truth" and features Obama with a crown of thorns on his head, in a position that is reminiscent of the crucifixion. “My intent was not to compare him to Jesus.”, D’Antuono blamed the controversy on conservative media “trying to promote the idea that liberals believe the president to literally be our savior.”, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, took issue with D'Antuono's vision. When he died in 1904, "the maid found him dead in the little room next to his atelier, slumped in front of a portrait of Rembrandt and at the foot of his own painting, Truth"—but the source for this anecdote, the biographer Moreau-Vauthier, does not specify which painting of Truth. pY�iS��E��w}���v���u����.Y����$+���g� ͫ�9z|��0����!Y�|���F��_�[x�è9Bۆv��Z�7%��IE#W����8?L. /MediaBox [0 0 612 792] /F1 6 0 R Gérôme kept a least one of the paintings. >> Parergon 15 I. Lemmata 17 II. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Donohue was even less amused by Foxx's comments. What makes this display so interesting is the flat denial of truth by so many artists and academicians, as well as their irrepressible hostility to Christianity. In The Truth in Painting, Heidegger’s attempt to ‘go beneath or behind the metaphysical determination of truth (Derrida, 1987:30) remains committed to the anthropological project. The Truth in Art and the Art in Truth By Emma Ferrer There is an old question that has entertained the minds of many thinkers who look to art and wonder whether it is a mirror offering a reflection of life itself. "The painting was to be in a mock voting booth for people to view privately and then interviewed to express their own views.". >> Original photo here. /Font << Philosophy of art - Philosophy of art - Art as a means to truth or knowledge: One of the things that has been alleged to be the purpose of art is its cognitive function: art as a means to the acquisition of truth. This is not the first time Obama has been controversially compared to Jesus. “I always regretted cancelling my exhibit in New York because I feel my First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings,” D’Antuono told Fox News. The painting by New York-based artist by Michael D’Antuono is titled "The Truth" and features Obama with a crown of thorns on his head, in a position that is reminiscent of the crucifixion.