[texanred]

You are certainly free to take it as the celebration you mention but by doing so you clearly ignore the stated intent of the artist. When you substitute the artists intent for a manufactured one you choose to be offended.

Sister Wendy Beckett, a world famed art critic and a Carmelite nun, gave the work a fantastic and thought provoking critique that you might look up.

[ArrogantBustard]

The "artist" (self so-called) can babble all he likes.

Excrement is excrement.

[MacMattico]

The “clearly” stated intent of the artist was not given until after he received world wide criticism for this work, before that he had stated several different reasons for the piece.

Sister Wendy Beckett's view is that it is a representation of what we have done to Christ today. I'm Catholic but that doesn't mean bringing out one nun that started studying art in her 50’s and is now called a “renowned art critic” changes that Piss Christ is trash. In fact pissing on anything has never seemed to me as representative of anything, it is a literal act with specific meaning.