RT Article
T1 Apocalypse and Body Transgression: On Picasso’s Crucifixion (1930)
JF Cultural and religious studies
VO 6
IS 4
SP 248
OP 266
A1 Paic, Zarko
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1842672096
AB The article deals with the question of the possibility of a new interpretation of Picasso’s picture entitled Crucifixion, which was created in the context of the art paradigm shift in the 1930s when the master focused his attention to the return to painting as a reference framework of myth and religion. But this return was only a turning point towards a modern understanding of the world and art from other sources. It should be noted that the problem of pictorial turn nowadays has a strong impact on the postmodern theology, which encompasses various cultural traditions, and also quite opposite philosophical attitudes. The article shows, thus, the inner relationship and connection between painting art and the search for transgression in the language that was the idea of Bataille. In the first part of this article, author tries to show the consequences of Bataille’s thinking of transgression; the second part has attempted to articulate the problems of interpretation of Picasso’s canvas Crucifixion; and concluding remarks is an attempt to review the emphasis on relationship with pictorial turn and transformations in the notion of contemporary art concerning the body as a sovereign event of the freedom and sacrifice.
K1 Bataille
K1 Picasso
K1 Apocalypse
K1 body transgression
K1 Crucifixion
K1 pictorial turn
DO 10.17265/2328-2177/2018.04.004