The Christ on the Cross

Description

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The Christ on the Cross

Artist: ArNoUx
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Panel
Style: German Expressionist – Figurative / Spiritual
Size: Approximately same measurements as your cardboard pieces (around 12 x 9 inches)

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🖼️ Curatorial Statement

“The Christ on the Cross” is ArNoUx’s visceral and unfiltered interpretation of one of humanity’s most sacred images. Painted in a German Expressionist language, the work refuses idealization and instead exposes the emotional and spiritual fracture behind the crucifixion. The distorted features, the fractured brushstrokes, and the luminous green highlights suggest both agony and transcendence—a divine presence breaking through human suffering.

The face of Christ appears to dissolve into the canvas, as if suspended between flesh and eternity. The strokes slash across the panel like wounds, while the pastel surroundings hint at grace, forgiveness, and the impossible quiet that follows sacrifice. ArNoUx transforms the crucifixion into an intimate psychological portrait—raw, trembling, and profoundly human. This is not Christ glorified; this is Christ felt, endured, and remembered in the depths of the soul.