About The Work
Andres Serrano's Piss Christ is one of the most controversial works of art produced over the past twenty years, ranking with Robert Mapplethorpe's homoerotic imagery and Barbara Kruger's politically charged photographs. Depicting a figure extended in a pose reminiscent of classical Greek sculpture but submerged in a murky jar of the artist's own urine, Piss Elegance is from the same series. The work is both grotesque and elegant, base and elevated, mired in bodily fluid and shadowed by a brilliantly lit and transcendent orange background.
Serrano, who is a member of the board of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA), donated an edition of this photograph to the organization in celebration of its 35 years of service to the arts community.
About Andres Serrano
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: A contemporary take on classical mythology
- Art 101: 8 of the Most Shocking Artworks Throughout History
- Interviews & Features: What Is Abject Art? (Tell Me That's Not What I Think It Is...)
- Interviews & Features: Jerry Saltz on His (Brief) Exile From Facebook, and the Virtues of Medieval Torture Porn
- Art 101: From Flamethrowers to Acid Attacks, 8 Ways Artists Have Waged War on Canvas
Photograph
Cibachrome print of color photograph
14.00 x 11.00 in
35.6 x 27.9 cm
Signed and numbered by the artist.
About The Work
Andres Serrano's Piss Christ is one of the most controversial works of art produced over the past twenty years, ranking with Robert Mapplethorpe's homoerotic imagery and Barbara Kruger's politically charged photographs. Depicting a figure extended in a pose reminiscent of classical Greek sculpture but submerged in a murky jar of the artist's own urine, Piss Elegance is from the same series. The work is both grotesque and elegant, base and elevated, mired in bodily fluid and shadowed by a brilliantly lit and transcendent orange background.
Serrano, who is a member of the board of the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA), donated an edition of this photograph to the organization in celebration of its 35 years of service to the arts community.
About Andres Serrano
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: A contemporary take on classical mythology
- Art 101: 8 of the Most Shocking Artworks Throughout History
- Interviews & Features: What Is Abject Art? (Tell Me That's Not What I Think It Is...)
- Interviews & Features: Jerry Saltz on His (Brief) Exile From Facebook, and the Virtues of Medieval Torture Porn
- Art 101: From Flamethrowers to Acid Attacks, 8 Ways Artists Have Waged War on Canvas
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