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Of these one stands out as having deeply impressed itself of the American religious consciousness: the "Head of Christ" by artist Warner Sallman (1892-1968). Originally sketched in charcoal as a cover illustration for the Covenant Companion, the magazine of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America denomination, and based on an image of Jesus in a painting by the French artist Leon Augustin Lhermitte, Sallman's "Head of Christ" was painted in 1940. In half a century, it had been produced more than five hundred million times in formats ranging from large-scale copies for use in churches to wallet-sized ones that individuals could carry with them at all times.
There is, of course, no physical description of Jesus in the New Testament or in any other surviving early Christian literature. Yet for hundreds of millions, Sallman's depiction has become the basis for their visualization of Jesus, a Jesus who brings the sacred into the realm of the ordinary.
From WWJD bracelets to Warner Sallman's Head of Christ, evangelicalism emphasizes the salvific power of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, as well as how he experienced the sufferings of humanity while remaining without sin.
By the 1990s, Sallman's Head of Christ had been printed more than 500 million times and had achieved global iconic status.
A new Catholic seminary in Oklahoma City requested and received a gigantic Head of Christ to display on campus.
and re-presenting the exhibition of pictures or objects in video formats that include both time and motion (for example, the appearance of a print version of Warner Sallman's 1940 Head of Christ in Spike Lee's 1991 film, Jungle Fever).
But one constant amid the family chaos is a framed image of Jesus. You've probably seen this one before. It is Warner Sallman's Head of Christ, that white, blue-eyed, long-haired Jesus who looks into the distance. Since first marketed in the 1940s, it has become the most reproduced depiction of Jesus on the globe. In Silver Linings Playbook, Jesus resides on a wall in the family room, a common phenomenon that art historian David Morgan found when he examined placements of Jesus in 1950s and '60s America.
An interesting case of inculturation occurred on Monday, November 11, 1991 when the 12-year-old Isaac Ayoub of Houston, Texas, suffering from leukemia, saw that the eyes of Jesus in the famous Sallman "Head of Christ" began moving and shedding an oily liquid like tears. On the same day, Fr. Ishaq Soliman, the Coptic priest of St. Mark's Coptic Church in Houston, testified to the miracles. On the following day, Dr. Atef Rizkalla, the family physician, examined the youth and certified that there were no traces of leukemia. Sallman's "Head of Christ" was exhibited in the Coptic Church and more than 50,000 people visited the church. Two Coptic bishops, Anbâ Tadros of Port Said and Anbâ Yuhanna of Cairo verified the story.
