new Hot Jesus Christ painting Currently many Catholic Minds in Spain.

Too beautiful, too sexy, too raunchy, too vulgar – these are just some of the criticisms leveled at the artist's work Salustiano Garcia Cruz From Seville, which is discussed with great enthusiasm in the media and on the Internet.

The mayor of Seville defended the artist and his work. “I love her. She is brave and takes risks,” ABC newspaper quoted him as saying. Jose Luis Sanz said all this excitement was a bit “artificial”.

Jesus is depicted in the picture with beautiful, sometimes feminine facial features, long hair hanging down to his shoulders, no crown of thorns, only two small wounds on one hand and in the chest area, and his stomach is covered with a cloth.

There is no trace of the suffering of Jesus Christ who was executed on the cross, but he might as well have been a pop star. The image was commissioned by the General Council of the Fraternity of Semana Santa (Holy Week), which in Seville As in many other Spanish towns and villages, it is celebrated with processions. The work, described by some as “blasphemous”, is being used as a poster to promote Easter celebrations in the traditional city in southern Spain.

The artist takes it with humor

The artist accepted criticism calmly and with a sense of humor.

His son was the model and he wanted to show the risen Jesus, the bright side of Holy Week. For critics who consider his work at least too erotic, the artist had a clear answer: “If someone sees something dirty in my picture, it is the result of his own dirtiness that he projects onto the picture.”