Posted on 02/03/2006 11:47:49 AM PST by voletti
Our interest in this story was sparked by an angry email sent to us here at WCBSTV.com. The writer wasn't angry at us, but rather about what he'd seen at the current National Black Fine Art Show in the Puck Building. This is the 10th anniversary edition of the show which features galleries from across the country selling the works of America's top African American painters, sculptors, and photographers.
But the writer had big problems with a painting by Harlem artist "Tafa". It depicts an upside down Christ-like figure with a face strongly resembling Osama Bin Laden. The email read in part, "This is outrageous. This is an attack against my religion. How can an artist go so low? Most people are outraged, most Christians."
On the phone with me, the artist declined to do an on-camera interview, telling me the work speaks for itself, but adding, the resemblance to Bin Laden was no accident.
The art show's producer Josh Wainwright, insisted he hadn't even made the Bin Laden connection. "Knowing what you know now would you have barred the painting from being part of your show?" I asked. "Absolutely not," he replied. Wainwright says he's a military veteran and despises Bin Laden, but he added, "I don't think it's anyone's job or vocation to limit the expression of artists."
(Excerpt) Read more at wcbstv.com ...
Where is the koran in a bottle of urine???
Correct me if I'm wrong.
If it was an upside-down depiction, would that not be an indication of a resemblance to the anti-Christ?
If so, hey, where's the complaint.
Careful now, this could produce a suicide bomber or two.
Totally agree.
Mea culpa, missed that one. Drudge reports the headline (Osdama as jesus) and I took it from there.
That's what I was thinking. If it's upside down...
Ha, mine's bigger than yours!
Dont forget Peter asked to be hung upside down....amoung many other matyrs that didnt have a choice.
I doubt this artist is sophisticated enough to even understand the concept.
So are gonna hear widespread outrage over the "deification" of the man who was behind the deaths of app 3000 innocent people?
Every American should be allowed to throw a shoe at that painting.
If I knew what Muhammad looked like, I'd make a big drawing for the upcoming 3/18/06 anti-America rallies taking place in most American cities.
That gives me an idea.....watch for riots in Boston on 3/18
That's what everybody says!
No,because the apostle Peter chose to be crucified upside down,out of reverence for the Lord Jesus.
My dog left a turd in the backyard I swear looks just like Bin Laden. I'm going to send it to them for the exhibit.
I'm sick and tired of my Christian beliefs being mocked. lets occupy a few art galleries with automatic weapons and threaten to burn them down unless the artist is put in prison, punished, flogged, or has hands cut off. /s
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