Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marsden Hartley's garish Three Friends, which showed Christ flanked by a hairy prize fighter and a clown. (Hartley, in a poem he wrote about it, says that the athlete and the clown had suffered almost as much as Christ...
...Abraham Rattner's colorful, confusing Transcendence, in which Christ seems to have five or six wobbly overlapping heads, arranged like the pleats of an accordion...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...
...Josef Scharl's simple, powerful Gethsemane. A head-on study of the Agony in the Garden, it had the human impact and the somber, Protestant force (but not the masterful painting) of a Christ by Rem brandt...
More than anything, the exhibition seemed to prove that 20th-Century art is far too subjective for the telling of uni versal truths. The life-loving men who carved the story of Christ in stone or set it in stained-glass windows for medieval Europe to read did it incomparably better. The subject matter of art's great periods has apparently become too hot for modern art to handle...