Cranach, Velázquez, Gauguin, Delacroix, Eyck, Rubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, the list of artists who chose to depict Christ’s crucifixion goes on and on.
Add one 8-year-old boy who gets suspended from school and is required to undergo psychological evaluation.
Is the boy’s work more horrific than that of Cranach? Does he exult in the details of suffering more than Rembrandt or Kriss? Should he have softened his image by adding cherubs in attendance, or did he intend some dark message by employing Xs for eyes and apparently omitting one leg. Picasso, your couch is waiting.
If our public schools get any sillier than this, it might be a welcome change because all indications are that the schools are deadly serious about stamping out Christianity.
Meanwhile, the boy has learned Paul’s lesson concerning the folly of proclaiming Christ crucified.
Image: Hinterglasbild Kreuzigung, Rudolf Kriss
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