RE: Religious Art: Yea or Nay?
January 8, 2018 at 9:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2018 at 9:35 pm by Seraphina.)
(January 7, 2018 at 1:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote: I certainly do find Renaissance (and later) art to be amazing, religious or non-religious. It's some of the modern art that I find unappealing and I don't really understand what people see in those silly red rectangles or splatters of random dots or toilet stools. I know it gives them weird nice feelings, but fuck if I could feel what they feel.
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lol That reminds me of a visit I made with my daughter to the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco last spring. While strolling through the galleries, we came upon a toilet bowl. I'm not sure what it was supposed to convey but my daughter said incredulously "Mom, it's a toilet bowl". I just rolled my eyes and we moved on.
There is a lot of incredible art that has religious themes. I remember standing in King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England and looking around me at the design and architecture in amazement. The art in my home is secular but if I dismissed all art that has religion in it, I would miss out on a lot.
-Teresa
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