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minus-squarewjrii@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThat’s in the finest tradition of tone-deaf, clueless whitewashing Mormon painters, including their own mythology.
minus-squarewjrii@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI mean, Kenobi Space Jesus has a pretty direct antecedent in Mormon art. They took the Medieval and Renaissance European tradition of making literally everybody white and brought it deep into the twentieth and even twenty-first centuries.
minus-squarebbbhltz@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoNot a believer in any sense, but I would follow Kenobi and put his portait on my wall. No doubt about it.
That’s in the finest tradition of tone-deaf, clueless whitewashing Mormon painters, including their own mythology.
Those are something else.
I mean, Kenobi Space Jesus has a pretty direct antecedent in Mormon art. They took the Medieval and Renaissance European tradition of making literally everybody white and brought it deep into the twentieth and even twenty-first centuries.
Not a believer in any sense, but I would follow Kenobi and put his portait on my wall. No doubt about it.