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"It's sad and upsetting," Chagoya told the Post Wednesday night by phone from California. "I've never had this kind of violent reaction to my art. Violence doesn't resolve anything."
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Hmm...putting a figure that resembles the common conception of Christ's image in a sexual situation and you don't expect to get a violent reaction from people to whom what you've done seems sacrilegious? That's like Salman Rushdie being surprised that a fatwa was placed on him.
Unless the artist lives in a totally autistic bubble, art is created to elicit reactions from its viewers. Why should he be surprised that his work elicited a violent response? Hasn't he been paying attention to what's been going on in the art world in connection with images that seem to mock religious iconic figures? Is the that naive?