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Marisa Martin is a Christian, conservative political activist and practicing artist of over 30 years. She uses a pen name because she feels it is terribly rude for an artist to criticize other artists – and it slows the hate mail down.
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God changes lives in works of art

by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_373317" align="alignright" width="250" caption=""Ecce Homo" by Domenico Feti"][/caption] As the civil universe seems to wither away like wet popcorn, an honest artist may ask himself something like, more…

The most common face in America, redefined

by Marisa Martin -- Lincoln has one of those faces only an admiring world could love. Sadly prescient and deeply sunk eyes perceived the nation's troubles. Lincoln's fabulously contorted brow seems to more…

Beefcake Jesus grabs art world's attention

by Marisa Martin -- [caption id="attachment_362945" align="alignright" width="250" caption=""The Undefeated" by Stephen Sawyer"][/caption] Today I officially join the ranks of the Pharisees – that is according to painter Stephen Sawyer, who weighs more…

'Paint a Dead Baby Day'

by Marisa Martin -- America's last, great, hunkering bogeyman of forbidden image and speech is abortion. Lurking under the beds of the nation, it terrorizes those who pull its covers back to more…

Art does a body good

by Marisa Martin -- Will future physicians carry a stethoscope, thermometer and DVD of "Annie Get Your Gun" in case it's indicated? If medical research sticks to its current story, it's a more…

Cowboy Michelangelo visits the Vatican

by Marisa Martin -- If you ever find yourself in Santa Fe mesmerized by an energetic bronze of Geronimo so charged it seems about to molt or mutate on the spot, it more…