Friday, November 23, 2007

Religious paintings


The African country I just visited is over 80 % Christian so it seemed appropriate to show a painting of Christ. Tony was catholic believing in the goodness of Christ, not being sure about his godliness. Yet he used the Christian iconography a lot in his paintings. He cared about the suffering of Christ - look at the eyes in this painting and the lines in the face - and the pain and loss of Mary Magdalen. The stories of the old testament and the new, it has all been painted. In this particular painting he combines Christ and a native sun. 'Native' obviously as in Native American, maybe referring to his own name 'Black Sun'. The portrait of Christ was painted in Chloride in 1996 and is now in the caring possession of Ken and Irene Fielder.

Rubbelsoul: please send your testimony and picure of the work you have. Tell us something about it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a Tony Mafia painting and would like to learn more about it.

Can anyone help?

Tumbleweed said...

Daffodil, send me a way to contact you and we can e-mail. 4th-plum@skynet.be