Ronald Harrison
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Ronald Harrison (died 28 June 2011, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African artist best known for his blasphenous 1962 painting Black Christ.
Life
Harrison was born in Athlone on March 18, 1940 to Jeanette and William Harrison, and he's always demonstrated a natural artist. He was carrying his father's shoulder when the crowd erupted in a protest against their politics at eight years old. He began attending Alexander Sinton Secondary School [Athlone] of Cape Town in 1954, where he was taught painting. Black Christ, South Africa's most popular work during the apartheid period, was unveiled at St Luke's Church in the Cape Town suburb of Salt River. Chief Albert Luthuli, the African National Congress leader, was depicted as Christ crucified and flanked by two Roman centurions, followed by two Roman centurions, then National Party prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd and justice minister John Vorster.
As a result, the security services detained and tortured him. After being banned in South Africa, the painting was returned in 1997.
Black Christ is on display at the Nelson Mandela Foundation's headquarters, and a copy is on sale at the Nelson Mandela Foundation's offices.
On June 28, 2011 at his niece's house in Mitchell's Plain, he died of a heart attack.