Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by orejones (D) on April 15, 2004 at 03:34:14

In Reply to: The Passion posted by audio_holic on April 14, 2004 at 21:07:12:

That was the comment a friend of mine, a professor teaching History of Art, who has just come back from the States, about this film.

In the old days it was not unusual for painters or sculptors to receive orders from the Church to paint, or to make a sculpture of Christ in the Cross, or being flogged under Pilate. There are some really good works on both, as we all can check by looking at any good book about History of Religious Art. And there were quite a few which were just so so, because the artist was not at the height of the circumstances and, in these cases, the poor art work frequently was disguised under a heavy layer of red streaks, hiding under that "blood" the poor talent of the author...

In Spain, some witty critic coined the phrase "A mal Cristo, mucha sangre" which can be translated as "When you are not able to picture (or sculpt) a worthy image of Christ, hide it under lots of blood"...

And that´s the impression he got from Mr. Gibson´s "artwork".

My (borrowed) 2 cents

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