“Piss Christ”

By Andres Serrano

1987

This is a picture taken by Andres Serrano in the year 1987. The picture itself is of a cross submerged in Serranos’ own urine in which his original intention was not to cause offense to anyone of christian/catholic faith. The color is not just what caught my attention due to the immensely dark yellow of the fluid but of the contrast and how light hits christ directly in a dramatic fashion. The subject of the image fills the frame and has nothing else to distract the viewers attention from it. Interestingly enough this photo caused some controversy as it angered a priest and and many others and was the reason for the decency-standard laws that were upheld by the supreme court in 1998.