RICCI's THE HOLY FAMILY WITH ANGELS
GRANACI's "THE CRUCUFIXION"
Posted on 12/09/2015 7:09:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A man is actually suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for exhibiting masterpiece paintings of Jesus Christ because Jesus is white and blond in the paintings †and that is racist.
Justin Renel Joseph has filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 demands that the four paintings be removed, according to an article in New York Post.
"They completely changed his race to make him more aesthetically pleasing for white people," he told the Post. "I'm suing a public venue which by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can't discriminate on a protected basis."
Joseph said that seeing a white Jesus in Ricci's "The Holy Family with Angels," Perugino's "The Resurrection," Tintoretto's "The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" and Granacci's "The Crucifixion" caused him "personal stress."
The stress was especially severe, Joseph said, because Jesus had "black hair like wool and skin of bronze color" and he also has "black hair like wool and skin of bronze color."
"The implication that someone who possesses physical features like the plaintiff could not be the important historical and public figure of Jesus Christ . . . caused the plaintiff to feel, among other things, rejected and unaccepted by society," court papers say.
According to Joseph, who is acting as his own lawyer, the paintings are "offensive aesthetic whitewashing" and their display in the museum is "an extreme case of discrimination." Apparently, he does not believe that the fact that the artwork is culturally and historically important is any reason display it in a museum where people go to see culturally and historically important artwork.
Seems pretty convincing to me †but Met spokeswoman Elyse Topalian, (who just must not know quite as much about art as Joseph does,) disagreed:
"When they were painted, it was typical for artists to depict subjects with the same identity as the local audience," Topalian said, according to The Post. "This phenomenon occurs in many other cultures, as well."
-- Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
I thought the Supreme Court said art falls under freedom of speech? That’s what they always decide when something like a crucifix in a jar of urine is displayed.
The Romans wouldn’t have needed Judas to point out the only white guy in the room.
The state of theological debate in today’s America - is God male or female; is Jesus white or black.
Who cares, as long as he comes soon.
He should sue the original artists for painting Him that way.
the guy needs to stop living in mommy’s basement, put the cup of tea down, get a lift, and stop hating
This is really no different than digging up confederate graves. Nothing, not even centuries old art, is immune to the PC Nazis.
Where is he getting this...””black hair like wool and skin of bronze color.”>
If that museum spends a single dime or a single moment of their time even entertaining this man’s asinine complaint, then they are as stupid as he is.
Anyone so delicate that he is stressed by seeing great art should be involuntarily committed to an institution, and anyone who is not that delicate but files the frivolous lawsuit anyways should be imprisoned for perjury/fraud. This generation of snowflakes is to fragile to handle the real world.
I would laugh if someone else were our POTUS/Attorney General.
HERE ARE MARY AND JESUS AS ESKIMOS.
Kinda gives new meaning to the idea of a white guy being the only “light bulb” in the room.
So Jesus wasn’t Middle Eastern? Is the guy saying Jesus was from Kenya?
They’re dead ducks, because as they’re getting more fragile, the muzzies are getting stronger, harder, and more obscenely bloodthirsty.
There was a nice documentary about how artists through out the ages and world has portrayed Jesus. As you show, artists tended to place Jesus within their own cultural context.
Has Ben Carson made a statement yet?
The manhattan Supreme Court????
Give him and the left a conundrum... a black Jesus on a crucifix in a jar of urine
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