Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Art / Media
Guardian Imitates The L, Collects Images of Artists' Nativity Scene Reinterpretations
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:09 PM
A little while back Jonny assembled a nice slideshow of
15 weird Nativity scenes, and today the
Guardian responded (because this isn't just a weird coinkidink, not at all, we're in dialog with major international papers all the time) with a
Nativity slideshow of its own. But where we went all vernacular and Pop artsy with kitschy dog figurines and toys and whatnot, the
Guardian Nativity scenes are predictably highbrow, each from the oeuvre of a modern or contemporary artist. The least wink-nudgingly sarcastic is
Tom Hunter's take (pictured) on Caravaggio’s painting "The Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence." (
Artinfo)
Tags: Nativity scenes, contemporary art, modern art, holidays, slideshows, Guardian, Tom Hunter
