Loki Mono
by Pet Serrano
Title
Loki Mono
Artist
Pet Serrano
Medium
Painting - Digital Impasto
Description
This is my cat, Loki. He appears in my books, old comics, old comic strips and a Super Bowl ad.
It's also my proposal for restoring the restoration of Martinez's "Ecce Homo".
The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church of Borja, Zaragoza is a fresco by Spanish painter Elías García Martínez depicting Jesus crowned with thorns. Both the subject and the details of its treatment are widespread in some forms of religious art. Press accounts agree that the original painting was of little artistic importance, and its fame relates to an attempt at restoration.
The artist, a professor at the School of Art of Zaragoza, gave the painting to the village where he used to spend his holidays. He commented that "this is the result of two hours of devotion to the Virgin of Mercy". His descendants still reside in Zaragoza and were aware that the painting had deteriorated seriously; his grand-daughter had made a donation toward its restoration shortly before they discovered Giménez's attempt to restore it.
The painting rose to the status of an internet phenomenon in August 2012. Cecilia Giménez, an 80 year old amateur artist living locally, painted over the fresco in an attempt to restore it. A BBC Europe correspondent said that the result resembled a "sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic". The restored version has been jokingly dubbed "Ecce Mono" (Behold the Monkey) in an "online rush of global hilarity", nicknamed "Potato Jesus", "Dum Dum Jesus" and "Beast Jesus", and compared to the plot of the movie Bean.
(primary source: Wikipedia)
I rarely explain my work, but-- yeah, I don't rightly know why I did it, either. I'd been working on writing an English to Ancient Egyptian dictionary all week and I took a break for tea and it just happened between giggles.
It's going in the "What was I Thinking?" file.
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September 22nd, 2012
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