Comments on: Sculpture: Chocolate Jesus http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/ For a well-considered visual environment Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jake http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-2099 Wed, 02 May 2007 20:44:21 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-2099 what is the difference between chocolate and say plaster, or wood?
is he critical of the fact that their is an image, or that it is chocolate?
are we objecting to seeing jesus penis? we know he had one, as he was fully man. we are ok with seeing thousands of images of him being flogged and beaten and bleeding and stabbed and mocked, but are outraged at a little penis.
come on

]]> By: Tim J. http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-796 Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:45:19 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-796 As a Catholic, I don’t see that Bill Donahue has done us any great favors, but his reaction was part of the calculus of the piece. He is the Jerry Falwell of the Catholic world… a performing chimp for the secular press, someone they can safely loathe and who can be counted on to put his foot in his mouth on occasion. They can easily convince themselves that ALL Christians are like that and feel pretty assured of their own superiority.

The cynic in me can’t help but think that the sculpture accomplishes its goal… the creation of publicity via controversy. *yawn*…

The title also seems like a joke, a pun as flippant and empty as the work itself.

As a friend of mine has said over and over, it is only because of the common knowledge that the Pope does NOT issue fatwas that arteests such as this repeatedly muster the “courage” to poke Catholics in the eye. Let them try this with a life sized sculpture of Mohammed, if they have the stones for it. Let them “explore those themes”.

]]> By: Ellen Collison http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-693 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:26:05 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-693 OK – I spoke (On A&F) before I really *looked* at Cavallaro’s piece, and have had a complete change of heart on this. Time to eat humble pie! (Or maybe my hat?!)

Paul, I think you were right all along.

Yours in chagrin,
nardis

]]> By: Robert Martinson II http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-635 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:09:36 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-635 I can see taking communion becoming a lot more popular if we start using chocolate, too. Bread and Wine (or grape juice) is good stuff, but chocolate is yummy stuff.

On the other hand, I’d much rather bite the head off a bunny than… I guess wanting to bite the head off of anything is kinda morbid.

So was it solid or hollow? Was it gonna be eaten after the exhibition? I don’t think people should create art out of food (or the byproducts from digestion for that matter) when there are so may starving people in the world, and it would be a shame to see so much chocolate going to waste instead of to waists. :)

]]> By: TAE http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-603 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:07:21 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-603 Ha!, very interesting angle which I’d not thought of. I suppose some do lament the commercialization of Easter, just as I have done of Christmas. Though Easter — for some reason or another — is less of a holiday for Christians here in America. At least that’s how it seems to me. Is it because it isn’t as commercialized, or commercializeable, as Christmas?

]]> By: Sheila West http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-600 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:55:16 +0000 http://theaestheticelevator.com/2007/03/30/sculpture-chocolate-jesus/#comment-600 A lot of people complain that peddling chocolate bunnies undermines the true focus of Easter: Jesus. So … I guess making a chocolate Jesus is one solution. Right?? No???? (Okay, I’ll shut up now.)

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