Wednesday, March 24, 2004
The Art of Assemblage: Object and Inspiration
GROUP EXHIBIT TO OPEN:
The Art of Assemblage: Object and Inspiration.
April 14 to May 30, 2004 (closed memorial day).
Norbert H. Kox, Steve Ballard, Gary Gresl, Josie Osborne and Thomas Noffsinger.
This exhibition features sculptural and relief works created from mixed materials and found objects transformed to another life. See Norbert Kox's newest sculpture, "All the World Wondered."
Rahr West Art Museum, 610 N. 8th Street, Manitowoc, WI 54220.
Opening reception now scheduled for Sunday, April 18, 1-4 pm. Don't miss it!
Museum Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, 10-4; Wed 10-8; Sat, Sun 11-4.
Telephone, 920-683-4524.
-Email the above Post to a Friend: The Art of Assemblage: Object and Inspiration.
April 14 to May 30, 2004 (closed memorial day).
Norbert H. Kox, Steve Ballard, Gary Gresl, Josie Osborne and Thomas Noffsinger.
This exhibition features sculptural and relief works created from mixed materials and found objects transformed to another life. See Norbert Kox's newest sculpture, "All the World Wondered."
Rahr West Art Museum, 610 N. 8th Street, Manitowoc, WI 54220.
Opening reception now scheduled for Sunday, April 18, 1-4 pm. Don't miss it!
Museum Hours: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, 10-4; Wed 10-8; Sat, Sun 11-4.
Telephone, 920-683-4524.
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Sunday, March 07, 2004
Exhibits; Including Images Mocking Sallman's Fraud
Apocalypse House Newsletter
Norbert H. Kox
nhkox@yahoo.com
http://www.apocalypsehouse.com
March 4, 2004
Greetings friends,
Norbert H. Kox artwork in Los Angeles: La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
The 7th Annual Group Show
featuring a whole bunch of great artists!
March 5 - 28, 2004
reception for the artists
March 5th 8-11 pm
4633 Hollywood Blvd LA CA 90027
323 666 7667 http://www.laluzdejesus.com800 YRU POOP
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GROUP EXHIBIT TO OPEN: The Art of Assemblage: Object and Inspiration. April 14 to May 30 (closed memorial day). Norbert H. Kox, Steve Ballard, Gary Gresl, Josie Osborne and Todd Bartell. Rahr West Art Museum, 610 N. 8th Street, Manitowoc, WI 54220. Possible opening reception on [Friday evening, April 16] has now been secured to Sunday, April 18, 1-4 pm. Telephone, 920-683-4524. http://www.rahrwestartmuseum.org
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SOLO EXHIBIT TO OPEN: Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud. Latest Norbert H. Kox solo show at America Oh Yes Gallery in Washington, DC, opens Monday, March 1, 2004, and runs through June 30. For details call 1-800-365-5278.
Artist reception will be scheduled and announced in a future newsletter.
STATEMENT
The ridicule of Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ (focused upon in this exhibit) is not a derision of the Saviour, but an expose of a false image. It as a plagiarized fraud and not the Divine Image it is claimed to be. Scripture warns against a false Christ image that becomes a living icon, and an object of worship (Revelation 13:14-15). Satan’s plan is to be worshipped as God and Saviour (Isaiah 14:13-14; II Thessalonians 2:3-4; II Corinthians 11:14). The Warner Sallman Head of Christ has become the accepted authentic portrait of Christ, having been reproduced over a billion times since 1940.
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Your letters of support, in response to the accusations of the hateful priest (see his letter in Feb. 8, 2004 newsletter at, http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com ) have been greatly appreciated. The newspaper has been slow in publishing them all, due to a high volume of letters related to the pressing political issues of our time. As they are published I will post them in newsletters and on Apocalypse House Blog. If you have writen to Ray Barrington <ray.barrington@gogreenbay.com> in reply to Father Hector Bolduc letter, Monday, February 2, 2004, and your letter has not yet appeared in The Green Bay News-Chronicle, please send me a copy. I will be happy to post your comments on my blog site, and/or in the newsletter.
Norbert H. Kox
nhkox@yahoo.com
-Email the above Post to a Friend: Norbert H. Kox
nhkox@yahoo.com
http://www.apocalypsehouse.com
March 4, 2004
Greetings friends,
Norbert H. Kox artwork in Los Angeles: La Luz de Jesus Gallery presents
Everything But the Kitschen Sync
The 7th Annual Group Show
featuring a whole bunch of great artists!
March 5 - 28, 2004
reception for the artists
March 5th 8-11 pm
4633 Hollywood Blvd LA CA 90027
323 666 7667 http://www.laluzdejesus.com800 YRU POOP
------------------------------------------------------------
GROUP EXHIBIT TO OPEN: The Art of Assemblage: Object and Inspiration. April 14 to May 30 (closed memorial day). Norbert H. Kox, Steve Ballard, Gary Gresl, Josie Osborne and Todd Bartell. Rahr West Art Museum, 610 N. 8th Street, Manitowoc, WI 54220. Possible opening reception on [Friday evening, April 16] has now been secured to Sunday, April 18, 1-4 pm. Telephone, 920-683-4524. http://www.rahrwestartmuseum.org
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SOLO EXHIBIT TO OPEN: Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud. Latest Norbert H. Kox solo show at America Oh Yes Gallery in Washington, DC, opens Monday, March 1, 2004, and runs through June 30. For details call 1-800-365-5278.
Artist reception will be scheduled and announced in a future newsletter.
STATEMENT
The ridicule of Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ (focused upon in this exhibit) is not a derision of the Saviour, but an expose of a false image. It as a plagiarized fraud and not the Divine Image it is claimed to be. Scripture warns against a false Christ image that becomes a living icon, and an object of worship (Revelation 13:14-15). Satan’s plan is to be worshipped as God and Saviour (Isaiah 14:13-14; II Thessalonians 2:3-4; II Corinthians 11:14). The Warner Sallman Head of Christ has become the accepted authentic portrait of Christ, having been reproduced over a billion times since 1940.
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Your letters of support, in response to the accusations of the hateful priest (see his letter in Feb. 8, 2004 newsletter at, http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com ) have been greatly appreciated. The newspaper has been slow in publishing them all, due to a high volume of letters related to the pressing political issues of our time. As they are published I will post them in newsletters and on Apocalypse House Blog. If you have writen to Ray Barrington <ray.barrington@gogreenbay.com> in reply to Father Hector Bolduc letter, Monday, February 2, 2004, and your letter has not yet appeared in The Green Bay News-Chronicle, please send me a copy. I will be happy to post your comments on my blog site, and/or in the newsletter.
Norbert H. Kox
nhkox@yahoo.com
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The Glamorous Fraud: Statement & Letters of Support
Apocalypse House Newsletter
Norbert H. Kox
nhkox@yahoo.com
http://www.apocalypsehouse.com
March 1, 2004
Greetings friends,
Your letters of support, in response to the accusations of the hateful priest (see his letter in Feb. 8, 2004 newsletter at, http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com
SOLO EXHIBIT TO OPEN: Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud. My latest solo show at America Oh Yes Gallery in Washington, DC, opens Monday, March 1, 2004, and runs through June. For details call 1-800-365-5278.
Artist reception will be scheduled and announced in a future newsletter.
Artist’s statement for the DC exhibit follows:
ARTIST STATEMENT
Norbert H. Kox
Norbert Kox loves God with his whole heart and follows the teachings of Christ. The ridicule of Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ (focused upon in this exhibit) is not a derision of the Saviour, but an expose of a false image.
Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud
March 1, 2004, through June 30, 2004
The intention of my artwork is to cause people to think, to research and investigate, rather than accept the blind traditions of men. The ultimate goal is to entice people to search the Scriptures on their own. The usual focus of my work is to target specific errors and idolatries of Humanity, revealing their fallacies through Scriptural references. I also try to point out areas of interest that need further investigation, in hopes that someone will be able to carry it to the next level.
I have appropriated the Warner Sallman Head of Christ (1940) for the purpose of exposing it as a plagiarized fraud and not the Divine Image it is claimed to be.
Scripture warns against a false Christ image that becomes a living icon, and an object of worship (Revelation 13:14-15). Satan’s plan is to be worshipped as God and Saviour (Isaiah 14:13-14; II Thessalonians 2:3-4; II Corinthians 11:14).
The Warner Sallman Head of Christ has become the accepted authentic portrait of Christ, having been reproduced over a billion times since 1940.
Sallman was a shrewd advertising marketer. He had a ploy to mass-market his art to the world. He found a painting of Christ that would be the perfect image to glamorize and sell to the world. It was the creation of French artist, Leon Lhermitte (lare-meet). The painting titled Emmaus, also known as Friend of the Humble, is a backlit Christ at a supper table (1892).
Being a graphic artist, Sallman was skilled in copy work. He simply copied the bust of Christ from Lhermitte’s oil painting, transforming it into a charcoal drawing which he titled Son of Man. He never told anyone that he copied the image. There would have been no shame in copying (graphic artists do it all the time) if he had credited the original artist. But what glory is there in a copied image? Yet, if the drawing were original, received in a Divine Vision from God, it would be considered spectacular. So Sallman concocted an awesome story of a vision of light and an apparition of the Head of Christ.
By claiming the image as his own, Warner Sallman became a plagiarist, something he never admitted to.
The Son of Man charcoal drawing was first published in black and white on a magazine cover. Later it was mass-produced as a sepia print and sold to the people of America. In 1940, Sallman painted a full-color oil of his Son of Man, and renamed it Head of Christ. His colors, shading, highlighting, lay of the hair, folds of the robe, all matching the Lhermitte painting perfectly. The only difference, Sallman, being familiar with the glamour photographs of Hollywood movie stars, added the same type of backdrop to his Head of Christ. The result was the “Picture Perfect Jesus”.
Accompanied with the story of its Divine origin, Sallman’s Head of Christ met with mass-approval. Over 4,000,000 prints were sold in the first two years. By 1985 more than 500,000,000 copies had been sold. Today, 2004, the Head of Christ has been reproduced well over a billion times, and is the universally recognized portrait of Christ. This idol came with the stamp of authenticity. Who could doubt that this was the face of Christ when it came from God in a heavenly vision? Many revere it as a picture of God. It is the God and Saviour prayed to by the majority of the world’s Christian population. It has been warned against throughout Scripture. It is all part of Satan’s plan to rob glory from Yahweh.
nhkox@yahoo.com
See my works at Apocalypse House.
Published letters in response to Priest's hate letter:
(see his letter in Feb. 8, 2004 newsletter at, http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com)
The Green Bay New Chronicle, Sunday, February 22, 2004
Page 12, Opinion, “Readers Comment”
Kox is friend, person of Christ
It was good to see the article by artist, Norbert H. Kox, after the negative remarks made by Father Hector Bolduc about Norbert’s art.
Norbert Kox, besides being one of the master artists of our time, is regarded by many people as a giving and loving human being. To give an example of his generosity, he showed me his personally developed glazing painting technique to help me on my own path as an artist.
My husband and I are honored to be among those Norbert calls friend. Therefore, I can tell you through personal knowledge that he is a person of Christ. He brings his beliefs to the canvas and challenges, others to seek as he has. He is nonjudgmental and has respect for other people. Norbert welcomes his friends without judging them. In my case, I am a student of Buddhism and other philosophies. He neither judges nor shows any disrespect regarding my spiritual journey.
It is with great interest to see Norbert’s artwork; besides the message, his execution of his techniques are magnificent.
Thank you, Norbert, for bringing your art and your message to us. We are so lucky to have such a talent in our community and be able to see his fantastic images and techniques in person. Our lives have been blessed with his friendship and knowledge.
Lori Jae Reich
Green Bay
The Green Bay New Chronicle, Sunday, February 22, 2004
Page 12, Opinion, “Readers Comment”
Brother defends controversial artist
I am writing this in defense of my brother and artist, Norbert H. Kox. Not that he needs my help. He is as intelligent and well-spoken a man as you will ever be blessed enough to meet. I was there back in 1975 when Norb changed his life. I heard him speak of seeing crosses in the sky and inspirations. Having been raised Catholic, his first step was to become Super Catholic. He spent time researching what he deemed as phony religions. Not too many years went by when he seems to have sensed certain levels of hypocrisy within the history and operation of the Catholic Church, and moved his own beliefs into other Christian churches, such as Pentecostal. His research seems to have shown him that a truly personal relationship with God is possible, and I think he long ago walked away from any religion organized by man. His artwork’s purpose is to reveal the hypocrisy of many accepted religious teachings. In other words, it’s an extension of his true life’s work, which for the past 30 years has been research and analysis of the religions of men
Why does he not paint the glory of God instead of the hypocrisies of men? Because he chooses not to make you feel better, but to think and read, and question...
Norbert H. Kox is a good man.
Joe Kox
Neenah
The Green Bay New Chronicle, Sunday, February 22, 2004
Page 12, Opinion, “Readers Comment”
Priest’s letter about Kox shocks church elder
In my opinion Father Hector Bolduc is misguided. I’m a Christian and church elder, and shocked at Bolduc’s letter. Bolduc called Norbert Kox a bigot. A bigot is “one who is strongly partial to one’s own religion and is intolerant of those who differ.” Norbert loves all people of all religions, is pro-Christ and against all Satanic activity.
Norbert is a Christian, showing loving concern for others and has an ultimate goal to entice people to search and read the Scriptures on their own. Bolduc's letter is an arrogant, stubborn assertion of his own dogmatic opinions and beliefs. Moreover, Bolduc boldly uses false and slanderous statements with the intent of hurting Norbert’s reputation.
I may not agree with all of Norbert’s works, but I always strive to be open-minded and seek first to under stand.
Certainly, current global events cry out for a Christian “wake-up call.” I believe Norbert Kox is our alarm clock, and it’s ringing loud and clear.
Jim Dumke
Sheboygan Falls
-Email the above Post to a Friend: Norbert H. Kox
nhkox@yahoo.com
http://www.apocalypsehouse.com
March 1, 2004
Greetings friends,
Your letters of support, in response to the accusations of the hateful priest (see his letter in Feb. 8, 2004 newsletter at, http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com
SOLO EXHIBIT TO OPEN: Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud. My latest solo show at America Oh Yes Gallery in Washington, DC, opens Monday, March 1, 2004, and runs through June. For details call 1-800-365-5278.
Artist reception will be scheduled and announced in a future newsletter.
Artist’s statement for the DC exhibit follows:
ARTIST STATEMENT
Norbert H. Kox
Norbert Kox loves God with his whole heart and follows the teachings of Christ. The ridicule of Warner Sallman’s Head of Christ (focused upon in this exhibit) is not a derision of the Saviour, but an expose of a false image.
Picture Perfect Jesus: The Glamorous Fraud
March 1, 2004, through June 30, 2004
The intention of my artwork is to cause people to think, to research and investigate, rather than accept the blind traditions of men. The ultimate goal is to entice people to search the Scriptures on their own. The usual focus of my work is to target specific errors and idolatries of Humanity, revealing their fallacies through Scriptural references. I also try to point out areas of interest that need further investigation, in hopes that someone will be able to carry it to the next level.
I have appropriated the Warner Sallman Head of Christ (1940) for the purpose of exposing it as a plagiarized fraud and not the Divine Image it is claimed to be.
Scripture warns against a false Christ image that becomes a living icon, and an object of worship (Revelation 13:14-15). Satan’s plan is to be worshipped as God and Saviour (Isaiah 14:13-14; II Thessalonians 2:3-4; II Corinthians 11:14).
The Warner Sallman Head of Christ has become the accepted authentic portrait of Christ, having been reproduced over a billion times since 1940.
Sallman was a shrewd advertising marketer. He had a ploy to mass-market his art to the world. He found a painting of Christ that would be the perfect image to glamorize and sell to the world. It was the creation of French artist, Leon Lhermitte (lare-meet). The painting titled Emmaus, also known as Friend of the Humble, is a backlit Christ at a supper table (1892).
Being a graphic artist, Sallman was skilled in copy work. He simply copied the bust of Christ from Lhermitte’s oil painting, transforming it into a charcoal drawing which he titled Son of Man. He never told anyone that he copied the image. There would have been no shame in copying (graphic artists do it all the time) if he had credited the original artist. But what glory is there in a copied image? Yet, if the drawing were original, received in a Divine Vision from God, it would be considered spectacular. So Sallman concocted an awesome story of a vision of light and an apparition of the Head of Christ.
By claiming the image as his own, Warner Sallman became a plagiarist, something he never admitted to.
The Son of Man charcoal drawing was first published in black and white on a magazine cover. Later it was mass-produced as a sepia print and sold to the people of America. In 1940, Sallman painted a full-color oil of his Son of Man, and renamed it Head of Christ. His colors, shading, highlighting, lay of the hair, folds of the robe, all matching the Lhermitte painting perfectly. The only difference, Sallman, being familiar with the glamour photographs of Hollywood movie stars, added the same type of backdrop to his Head of Christ. The result was the “Picture Perfect Jesus”.
Accompanied with the story of its Divine origin, Sallman’s Head of Christ met with mass-approval. Over 4,000,000 prints were sold in the first two years. By 1985 more than 500,000,000 copies had been sold. Today, 2004, the Head of Christ has been reproduced well over a billion times, and is the universally recognized portrait of Christ. This idol came with the stamp of authenticity. Who could doubt that this was the face of Christ when it came from God in a heavenly vision? Many revere it as a picture of God. It is the God and Saviour prayed to by the majority of the world’s Christian population. It has been warned against throughout Scripture. It is all part of Satan’s plan to rob glory from Yahweh.
nhkox@yahoo.com
See my works at Apocalypse House.
Published letters in response to Priest's hate letter:
(see his letter in Feb. 8, 2004 newsletter at, http://apocalypsehouse.blogspot.com)
The Green Bay New Chronicle, Sunday, February 22, 2004
Page 12, Opinion, “Readers Comment”
Kox is friend, person of Christ
It was good to see the article by artist, Norbert H. Kox, after the negative remarks made by Father Hector Bolduc about Norbert’s art.
Norbert Kox, besides being one of the master artists of our time, is regarded by many people as a giving and loving human being. To give an example of his generosity, he showed me his personally developed glazing painting technique to help me on my own path as an artist.
My husband and I are honored to be among those Norbert calls friend. Therefore, I can tell you through personal knowledge that he is a person of Christ. He brings his beliefs to the canvas and challenges, others to seek as he has. He is nonjudgmental and has respect for other people. Norbert welcomes his friends without judging them. In my case, I am a student of Buddhism and other philosophies. He neither judges nor shows any disrespect regarding my spiritual journey.
It is with great interest to see Norbert’s artwork; besides the message, his execution of his techniques are magnificent.
Thank you, Norbert, for bringing your art and your message to us. We are so lucky to have such a talent in our community and be able to see his fantastic images and techniques in person. Our lives have been blessed with his friendship and knowledge.
Lori Jae Reich
Green Bay
The Green Bay New Chronicle, Sunday, February 22, 2004
Page 12, Opinion, “Readers Comment”
Brother defends controversial artist
I am writing this in defense of my brother and artist, Norbert H. Kox. Not that he needs my help. He is as intelligent and well-spoken a man as you will ever be blessed enough to meet. I was there back in 1975 when Norb changed his life. I heard him speak of seeing crosses in the sky and inspirations. Having been raised Catholic, his first step was to become Super Catholic. He spent time researching what he deemed as phony religions. Not too many years went by when he seems to have sensed certain levels of hypocrisy within the history and operation of the Catholic Church, and moved his own beliefs into other Christian churches, such as Pentecostal. His research seems to have shown him that a truly personal relationship with God is possible, and I think he long ago walked away from any religion organized by man. His artwork’s purpose is to reveal the hypocrisy of many accepted religious teachings. In other words, it’s an extension of his true life’s work, which for the past 30 years has been research and analysis of the religions of men
Why does he not paint the glory of God instead of the hypocrisies of men? Because he chooses not to make you feel better, but to think and read, and question...
Norbert H. Kox is a good man.
Joe Kox
Neenah
The Green Bay New Chronicle, Sunday, February 22, 2004
Page 12, Opinion, “Readers Comment”
Priest’s letter about Kox shocks church elder
In my opinion Father Hector Bolduc is misguided. I’m a Christian and church elder, and shocked at Bolduc’s letter. Bolduc called Norbert Kox a bigot. A bigot is “one who is strongly partial to one’s own religion and is intolerant of those who differ.” Norbert loves all people of all religions, is pro-Christ and against all Satanic activity.
Norbert is a Christian, showing loving concern for others and has an ultimate goal to entice people to search and read the Scriptures on their own. Bolduc's letter is an arrogant, stubborn assertion of his own dogmatic opinions and beliefs. Moreover, Bolduc boldly uses false and slanderous statements with the intent of hurting Norbert’s reputation.
I may not agree with all of Norbert’s works, but I always strive to be open-minded and seek first to under stand.
Certainly, current global events cry out for a Christian “wake-up call.” I believe Norbert Kox is our alarm clock, and it’s ringing loud and clear.
Jim Dumke
Sheboygan Falls
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