RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - Palm Sunday

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton

Stanley Spencer’s “Christ's Entry into Jerusalem” (1920); Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries

It’s Palm Sunday, and we're in Disneyland for our son Kai’s 32nd birthday (no church). Today’s Gospel: Mark 11: 1-11 recounts Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, but UK painter Stanley Spencer has a different insight. In his visual storytelling, we don’t see the palm-wavers but those who shunned him. He also places the moment in his own time and his hometown of Cookham. It's an unorthodox approach, and we like it. What if Christ arrived in your hometown today? That’s why “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem” by Stanley Spencer is our art of the week.

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