Reply #61: nah. i love "Piss Christ" and was raised catholic. kinda the same. [View All]

people ask me why i love that work and it's because it evokes such passionate residual feeling i have after leaving the religion i was brought up with. to me it is a religious piece exalting mysteries i was familiar with being raised in the faith. it somehow comes to this through the backdoor of what many would see as profane. but to me Piss Christ is a deeply moving work touching a long buried sacred chord from my long abandoned faith of childhood.

good art can be like that -- deeply controversial, and yet through controversy come to an entirely different evocation. transcendence through shock, as i like to think of it. and is not one of the big goals of art is to seek a window into transcendence?