Immersion (Piss Christ) is a 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.

Also, why should the feds fund art? Why should they fund most things? lol

Southeastern. Southeastern. No way. I can’t believe that heretic blasphemer lives in the south

Austin is in Texas.

Art has value, so let it be reflected in the market. If people don't think it's being funded enough, they can always support it with their own money

Serrano was born in New York City on August 15, 1950.[1] He is from a half Honduran, half Afro-Cuban background

austin is not texas

Oh. So really a yankee did it.

but texas will soon be austin

Don't you say that.

Damn Yankees and their atheist garbage

Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!

lol

Serrano is not an atheist you fucking idiot

so he says

his a Christian

bullshit

he's not

marxist lies

lol

What Christian would submerge Jesus on the cross in piss? lol

Putting a depiction of Christ in urine is pretty suggestive of something.

That's just speaks to your very narrow understanding of the piece

Oy vey

Ooh, please tell us more

So cultured

when he said he had no idea people might think it was blasphemous, you know he's lying

Like what could possibly make it any better?

Either that, or he's taken so many drugs that his brain is fried.

Oh man. Fried brain. You’re making me hungry

"I'm so christian I pissed on a picture of Christ and but it on display."

cool story

deus vult

I agree that the crucifix itself is just an object and has no legitimate spiritual value. But knowing what it represents and putting it in urine, which would be considered disrespectful, is pretty suggestive of having disrespect for what the object represents.

@ChilledFillet

"You just don't understand aaaarrrtttt" lol

and then pretending shocked when people didn't like it, like he had no idea

yeah, tell me another lie, dude

So. I’m going to need to hear that reasoning on why it isn’t some jab at Christianity.

Yeah, I'm with Shaky here, the idea that you would do that with no conception that it is blasphemous is a bridge too far for me.

Let me sniff some of my own farts before I take a whack at it