It's a strange but seminal episode in the history of the Christianity: the moment when the Catholic Church abandoned modern art because of a tomato.
It was 1964. Sister Mary Corita Kent, a nun, artists and teacher at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, produced a serigraph called The Juiciest Tomato of All. Kent (1918-1986) was a nun of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and a noted artist specializing in lithographs and Pop Art inspired by Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, as well as Los Angeles Pop artists Ed Rushca, Robert Dowd, and Philip Hefferton.
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