"We should not be afraid sometimes to confront beauty and horror."
"The sounds of belief, to an atheist, are very touching" (1988)
"The sounds of belief, to an atheist, are very touching," 1988
Acrylic on mahogany panel, 96 x 64 inches. Private collection, Los Angeles. Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio.
Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Acrylic on mahogany panel, 96 x 64 inches. Private collection, Los Angeles. Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio.
Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
"As an atheist, I am attracted to religious art because it usually represents a hyperbolic moment like the suffering or martyrdom of a saint or...a dramatic moment in the life of Christ and a shocking image of a tortured physical body. So I look at a religious image through a secular lens."
- Lari Pittman
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