Thanks for letting me know about the "Onion." I'm new to FR.
No, it's really called the Stations of the Cross. As I taught class today, I thought I'd see what Freepers had to say. I used to buy all this theory, and I still like Pollock and Rothko and think they are quite spiritual, but Newman seems more and more empty. Did you know that he's Jewish? I've always thought it interesting that a Jewish artists created the Stations pieces, just like Rothko created a non-denominational chapel (but not synagogue) and he's Jewish too.
Well....thinking about this more: maybe that explains how empty the work seems to me now.
Well, I'm stuned! I'm not strictly traditional about religious art, but this is simply amazing! If you hadn't said what that "picture" was supposed to be, I'd have thought the baby got into the pens and printer paper (again).
Of course, I'm just a redneck chick who likes Civil War prints and Frederic Remington and the "Kiowa school" of American Indian painting :-).
Watch out for "The Onion," "Scrappleface," and some of the National Review Online pieces. Some of us (including me) have looked pretty silly falling for satires!