Max Ernst. The Virgin Chastising the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter. 1926. Cologne: Museum Ludwig.Holy cats is this ever irreverent! Talk about hilarious. Please accept my apologies to any REALLY devout Catholics out there. But as a parent and a Lutheran (we don't venerate the saints, wishing to avoid risking idolatry, this was considered to be a very "iconoclastic" idea back during the reformation.) Guess what? STILL a touchy subject in 460 years later in the 1920's. Is this "Shock-Art?" Does it provoke the viewer to think? Who's being satirized? The long established conventions of religious art and artists? Catholics? Parents? All Christians? Moralists?
Whatever, I just manages to over-analyze it. It's enough that it's hilarious.
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