Painting Yonatan: NYC Artist Jeremy Penn Paints Galliano
- 12 years ago
New York Artist Jeremy Penn gives fashion designer John Galliano a Judaic makeover. Jeremy Penn's painting titled "Yonatan" will be auctioned off at Benrimon Gallery in NYC to help benefit the Anti-Defamation League. On February 25th, 2011, Galliano was arrested after an anti-Semetic tirade in a French bar, under the Gayssot Act, a French law that prohibits the questioning or denying the existence of crime against humanity.
Despite checking himself into a rehabilitation center, Galliano continues to deny the allegations and has launched an anti-defamation suit against the couple accusing him of anti-Semitism.
Penn’s painting “Yonatan” shows Galliano as a Bar Mitzvah boy being adorned in a Christian Dior talas and yamaka.
The Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a Jewish coming of age ritual that symbolizes the journey into adulthood and the commencement of a new set of responsibilities, none more important than accepting of moral responsibility for one’s own actions; something Galliano has never done.
Mazel Tov Yonatan!
Despite checking himself into a rehabilitation center, Galliano continues to deny the allegations and has launched an anti-defamation suit against the couple accusing him of anti-Semitism.
Penn’s painting “Yonatan” shows Galliano as a Bar Mitzvah boy being adorned in a Christian Dior talas and yamaka.
The Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a Jewish coming of age ritual that symbolizes the journey into adulthood and the commencement of a new set of responsibilities, none more important than accepting of moral responsibility for one’s own actions; something Galliano has never done.
Mazel Tov Yonatan!