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|artist=Mark Ryden, | |artist=Mark Ryden, | ||
|subject=Religion | |subject=Religion | ||
|confronting_bodies=Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission; Catholic League | |confronting_bodies=Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission; Catholic League; Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) | ||
|medium=Painting | |medium=Painting | ||
|date_of_action=June 27, 2016 | |date_of_action=June 27, 2016 | ||
|location=Virginia Beach, VA | |||
|description_of_content=Two works by Los Angeles-based painter Mark Ryden: “Rosie’s Tea Party” and "Fountain." Both paintings are of the genre of post-modern Victorian kitsch, referencing the occult and Christian symbolism. “Rosie’s Tea Party” depicts a girl giving a tea party who is cutting a ham inscribed with the words ‘Corpus Christi’ (body of Christ) while wearing a first communion dress and a crucifix around her neck. The image of Jesus graces the label on a bottle of wine. A rabbit pours a teapot full of blood while rats eat the ham off the floor. The other painting, “Fountain,” shows a girl holding her own severed head while her pink dress and white shoes are un-soiled by the blood spurting from her neck stump. | |description_of_content=Two works by Los Angeles-based painter Mark Ryden: “Rosie’s Tea Party” and "Fountain." Both paintings are of the genre of post-modern Victorian kitsch, referencing the occult and Christian symbolism. “Rosie’s Tea Party” depicts a girl giving a tea party who is cutting a ham inscribed with the words ‘Corpus Christi’ (body of Christ) while wearing a first communion dress and a crucifix around her neck. The image of Jesus graces the label on a bottle of wine. A rabbit pours a teapot full of blood while rats eat the ham off the floor. The other painting, “Fountain,” shows a girl holding her own severed head while her pink dress and white shoes are un-soiled by the blood spurting from her neck stump. | ||
|description_of_incident=Benito Loyola, CEO of local IT company Loyola Enterprises and a member of the Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission, accused Mark Ryden of blasphemy in these two of three of his works featured in “Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose,” an exhibition at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Loyola called the works “anti-Christian and anti-Catholic” and threatened to slash the museum’s funding for promoting “anti-Christian bigotry.” The museum, with an annual operating budget in the neighborhood of $2 million, gets $120,000 a year from the commission. The head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, chimed in with an open letter targeting museum director Debi Gray. | |description_of_incident=Benito Loyola, CEO of local IT company Loyola Enterprises and a member of the Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission, accused Mark Ryden of blasphemy in these two of three of his works featured in “Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose,” an exhibition at The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Loyola called the works “anti-Christian and anti-Catholic” and threatened to slash the museum’s funding for promoting “anti-Christian bigotry.” The museum, with an annual operating budget in the neighborhood of $2 million, gets $120,000 a year from the commission. The head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, chimed in with an open letter targeting museum director Debi Gray. | ||