Comments on: Epic Christian painting of historical figures and "lefty" archetypes

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Whitey White Mc White. Jesus is so white. (Sorry, not trolling, just angry at that horrid picture.)

By: lejon astray

lejon astray — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

so where did jesus sign the constitution?

is there a first amendment in the bible?

By: primofex

primofex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

fixed

By: bjacques

bjacques — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

He’s no Kincaid.

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In in the center is the biggest Lefty archetype: Jesus

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seems like a good place to link to this fabulous Onion story: “Evolutionists Flock to Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain”

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin

By: Noel Stalker

Noel Stalker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Check out Jesus worshipper Greg Boyd’s denunciation of this painting.

By: Deceptibob

Deceptibob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now if we could only get someone to photoshop Optimus Prime into that picture… After all, He died for our sins!

By: PixelFish

PixelFish — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As I pointed out on Facebook and Pharygula, Jesus appears to be descended from Aragorn, son of Arathorn, as he has a Tree of Gondor on his chest.

Also, McNaughton has included a number of Deists and the godless, including Paine, whose name he misspells.

This painting provides twice as much joy as the painting of the Republican Presidents playing poker together: http://www.eleganthorsepictures.com/thomas-grand.html

By: haz

haz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alexander Hamilton: “Anyone wanna rassle?”

By: echolocate chocolate

echolocate chocolate — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think this artists’ religion is not Christianity but American imperialism. This painting is pure idolatry.

By: Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How about the much-improved annotations of the Shortpacked edition?

http://www.shortpacked.com/McNaughton%20Fine%20Art.htm

By: AnoniMouse

AnoniMouse — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

one more reason this picture is ridiculous; all the historically relevant black people ARE IN THE BACK, barely visible.

By: funtax

funtax — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I greatly prefer the modified version over at Shortpacked:

http://www.shortpacked.com/McNaughton%20Fine%20Art.htm

By: Professor Peewee

Professor Peewee — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Alternate version found here: http://www.shortpacked.com/McNaughton%20Fine%20Art.htm

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

College Student: Good!
Professor: Bad!

Hm.

By: bwaterhouse

bwaterhouse — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What’s Jefferson, the Unitarian, doing up there?

By: Supergenius

Supergenius — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past several days we’ve hosted a haiku contest about this particular piece of art. It’s terrible.

By: danlalan

danlalan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think this guys religion is money.

This self described “fine art” on his website, all pretty well over the top on the mawkish end of the scale, is clearly aimed at a very specific subset of people with tastes in art and probably all else in life that are, to not be too harsh, naively unsophisticated. The prints of this picture, “signed” but not numbered, are 30 bucks for a 10X15 paper print or 130 bucks for a 12X18 pseudo-canvas print. Unframed. Not out of the ballpark unreasonable for truly fine art, but kinda on the high side for a “dogs playing poker” analogue.

By: primofex

primofex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One Nation Under Elder Gods

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mmmmmm, delicious kitsch.

So, will Viggo Mortensen (centre) be suing for misuse of his likeness?

By: Hanglyman

Hanglyman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I like how somehow the teacher is portrayed as vital to the future of America, but the professor is evil. Apparently education is very important, until you get educated enough to question the existence of God.

By: IronyElemental

IronyElemental — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love how every square inch of that painting is a cliche.

By: RedShirt77

RedShirt77 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Prof. PW,

Thank you, that made my lunch break.

By: historyman68

historyman68 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

awesome!

By: coaxial

coaxial — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, the self-contradictions and lack of historical and symbolic meanings are rampant in that. Truly, an artwork for the contemporary American theocrat.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Since when is Jesus descended from Swedes?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

From the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified unanimously in the Senate and signed by [John] Adams into law, 1797: “The United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion.”

Works Cited:
1)
Huberman, Jack. The Quotable Atheist. New York: Nation Books, 2007.

Why does no one do homework on our Founding Fathers?

By: sobreiro

sobreiro — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So utterly ironic! American Right-wing lunatics like to accuse lukewarm democrats of being fascists, yet this painting could easily be a Russian Social Realism propaganda painting, switching Stalin for Jay-Cee.

By: Glossolalia Black

Glossolalia Black — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Man, I wish it had more billowing flames in the background, and maybe clouds opening up and sun shining down on J-man, there… maybe some lions and lambs. Then we’d have a WATCHTOWER cover for sure!