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Christ & Picasso. The show centered on nine paintings of the Crucifixion, done in oils on thin paper. Rose had long been regarded as a decorative, eclectic artist with a low emotional octane rating: overnight his new pictures established him as a force in British painting. Said London's Art News & Review: "This remarkable series of paintings is not romantic or expressionist, as are most Crucifixions, but may rather be described as liturgical, ritualistic, learned and arcane . . . executed with great resource and command of the medium." Describing Rose as "an artist who believes in both Christ and Picasso," the Catholic...
Despite the critics' praises, few gallery-goers were likely to see beyond the main quality of Rose's Crucifixion: its ghastliness. Rose had clothed the figure of Christ in writhing ribbons of green flesh outlined with black and lavender, dripping streamer-like gouts of purplish blood. The painting swarmed dizzyingly with abstruse symbols, many of them phallic. Christ's brow, overhanging the foreground, was an electric lamp...
...tradition is 650 years old. Originally planned to take place every 100 years, the intervals were shortened first to 50, finally to 25 years-though popes may declare a special Holy Year at any time, as Pius XI did in 1933 to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of the Crucifixion...
...thanksgiving for the victory of the hour, begging peace with justice . . . The peace that came was not God's peace; and because in the ensuing postwar years men's hearts have not been won back to God, I must this day-as a protest against the crucifixion of humanity-entreat your prayers for persecuted, tortured, victimized Cardinal Mindszenty...
Devil's Disciple. Butler invaded science and theology with the same contumacious temerity. He denied both the Crucifixion and Resurrection; nonetheless, he believed in "God"-a Butler-made vital spirit of whom he Shavianly said: "God is not so white as he is painted, and he gets on better with the Devil than people think." Like Carl Jung, he believed in a collective unconscious-an inborn "memory" of human habit and behavior handed down through the generations. The art of living, he held, was to keep a tricky but common-sensical balance between this vital inheritance and the equally...