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Ofili is a black Roman Catholic, and to my mind the picture represents an earnest attempt to appropriate the Virgin for black culture.
On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.
Remember, the Virgin Mary may be a timeless symbol, but she is also a flesh-and-blood woman, and Ofili is hardly the first artist to eroticize the Virgin.
In connection with Chris Ofili's painting [in her first Newsweek column], she invokes Joyce and Lawrence but fails to mention that neither was publicly funded.
One can imagine ironic or otherwise complex readings of these statements that might attempt to cleanse them of their offensive meaning, just as the Times attempts to cleanse the Virgin Mary canvas of its offensive meaning by quoting the artist, Chris Ofili, saying it all has something to do with his childhood confusion about the virgin birth.