PICTURE PERFECT JESUS
THE ART OF NORBERT KOX
Can a Billion Pictures of Jesus be Wrong?
Norbert Kox is a devout Christian and a serious student of religion. He is also an internationally renowned visionary artist most famous for his surrealistic apocalyptic paintings. Now he has done a series of paintings for an exhibit titled "Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud". He wants to set the record straight and destroy one of the greatest myths about Christ, specifically how Christ looked. And according to Kox, it's a far cry from Warner Sallman's pretty picture of Jesus which almost every Christian recognizes instantly since more than a billion prints have been made and sold since 1940. Kox considers it a disgrace. he claims that Sallman plagiarized the image using a painting by a French painter, Leon Lhermitte, done in 1892. "Being a graphic artist", Kox explains, "Sallman was skilled at copy work. He simply copied the bust of Christ from Lhermitte's oil painting, transforming it into a charcoal drawing which he titled "Son of Man". He never told anyone he copied the image. Sallman concocted an outlandish story of a vision of light and an apparition of the Head of Christ. After selling the charcoal for a magazine cover, he then did a full color oil painting using Lhermitte's image and named it "Son of Man". It had all the glamour of photographs of Hollywood Stars: The Picture Perfect Jesus. Kox has painted Sallman's portrait of Christ over and over again for his exhibit. But each one has been altered to portray Jesus in various forms ... as a Harley Davidson biker, as Frankensteins monster, as a Salmon, as an alien, as Santa , as a pig, as a bull. "The intentions of my work" Kox says, "is to cause people to think, to research and investigate rather an accept the blind traditions of men. The ultimate goal is to search the Scriptures on their own. The focus of my art is to target specific errors and idolatries of humanity, revealing their fallacies through scriptural references. I do not do the art to be irreverent, although there are always some people who are offended by it.
Click to read the Artists Statement regarding this exhibit.
Abomination of Desolation acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Angel of Light acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Anti Equals Instead Of acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Armageddon acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Death Rider acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 The Devil is Come Down Unto You acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Be a Mazed acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 The Idol Shepherd acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Imitator acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Till Iniquity was Found in Thee acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 My Name is Legion acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 This Is The Man acrylic and oil on canvas 16 x 20 framed $2,200 click for ordering and
availability Wording on painting reads: This is the dupe who brought
the image of the Anti Christ to the world in 1940. This is
the face of Warner Sallman superimposed on his idol. Sallman
plagiarized and popularized in 1924-1940. This is the image
of the beast. Wild One acrylic and oil on canvas 16 x 20 framed $2,200 click for ordering and
availability Wording on painting reads: Rev. 13: 14-15 They made an
icon of the wild beast to worship. Warner Sallman
popularized the image of the Anti Christ in 1940 he gave it
life. Wording inside of wings reads: Hardly David's Son Picture Perfect Jesus acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Pseudo Christ's acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Sallmanstein acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 The Salmon Headed Christ acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Counterfeit Christ acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Crossfire: Heart Attack acrylic and oil on canvas board 18 x 18 framed $1,500 Terrorist acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 Watcher acrylic and oil on canvas 8 x 10 framed $1,200 The Wrong Covering acrylic and oil on laminae paper board 9 x 11 framed $1,200 Very Gentile Teraphin acrylic and oil on panel 9 x 11 framed $1,200 The Tester acrylic and oil on panel 10 x 8 framed $1,200 What is Truth acrylic and oil on panel 9 x 11 framed $1,200 Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin acrylic and oil on masonite 9 x 11 framed $1,200
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