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Art What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’? A groundbreaking exhibit tells the story of creation through multiple perspectives, with eye-opening ...
Maritain maintained that “art, as such, does not consist in imitating but in making, in composing or constructing, in accordance with the laws of the very object to be posited in being.” Art is not a ...
William Holman Hunt’s “The Light of the World” (1851–54) and Ary Scheffer’s “Christ the Consolator” (1837) are two examples of this new way of depicting the male form in Christian art.
It was important in Cold War America to prove that it was a Christian nation, so a new story was added to the American creation myth: Through the nation's history, all presidents invoked God as ...
I was immediately taken by this work because of the scale. In depicting a spiritual figurehead as so small against the imposing natural terrain, Schwontkowski reminds us of our collective humanity.