The Naked Truth in Visual Art and the Church

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Is it okay to paint a naked woman without any clothing in his body showing his breast and butt? Can I paint a potrait like this and becomes an offer to God as a form of worship?

thanks for your very kind answers!!!
 
BillP said:
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no not like that! That is a nude painting by michael angelo and I know it is okay for the church because it is a biblical revelation of the last judgement but what I’m trying to say is, How if it is not connect in any Christian phenomena?
 
heronimo said:
no not like that! That is a nude painting by michael angelo and I know it is okay for the church because it is a biblical revelation of the last judgement but what I’m trying to say is, How if it is not connect in any Christian phenomena?
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Do you feel you can offer that to God?
 
Spirithound said:
Do you feel you can offer that to God?
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For me, the answer to your question is yes, because God created our body so beautiful on his own likeness. So we must proclaim the beautiness of a human body to the world. But I’m not sure about this answer because I doubt whether the Church have teaching about this in moral Theology or nothing.

thankssss to you all guyssss!!! hoasana! hosana! hosana!!!
 
I think it depends on if what you create arouses any kind of disordered desire in you. Using that sculpture of David as an example, most people look at it and don’t think twice about the nudity, but if someone looks at it and starts to get lustful, placing sexual desire outside its proper context, then maybe they shouldn’t be looking at it.

One other thing about these depictions of King David in the buff… It doesn’t make any sense. I had an art teacher explain that it had to do with the verses that describe the armor available as being too big, so he went into battle without it. But sans armor doesn’t necessarily mean sans clothing. In fact, the verses say nothing about battling in the nude.

It’s like saying it’s 20 degrees outside, I need a coat. Wait, the coat is too big! I think I’ll shovel the driveway naked then!.. Ridiculous.
 
heronimo said:
For me, the answer to your question is yes, because God created our body so beautiful on his own likeness. So we must proclaim the beautiness of a human body to the world. But I’m not sure about this answer because I doubt whether the Church have teaching about this in moral Theology or nothing.

thankssss to you all guyssss!!! hoasana! hosana! hosana!!!
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Well then, I think you have your answer. 😃
Peace
 
heronimo said:
For me, the answer to your question is yes,
because God created our body so beautiful on his own likeness.
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I think you have it all wrong
because God created our body so beautiful on his own likeness.
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It’s not our body that is created in God’s likeness. In Genesis Chapter 1 verses 27-28:

And God said; let us make man to our image and likeness:
And God created man to his own image; to the image of God He created them: male and female He created them.

This image of God in mankind (“is not”) in the body, but inside the human soul; which is spiritual substance endued with understanding and free will.
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centurionguard said:
I think you have it all wrong

It’s not our body that is created in God’s likeness. In Genesis Chapter 1 verses 27-28:

And God said; let us make man to our image and likeness:
And God created man to his own image; to the image of God He created them: male and female He created them.

This image of God in mankind (“is not”) in the body, but inside the human soul; which is spiritual substance endued with understanding and free will.
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Thanks for the correction centurionguard it was so nice!!!
 
heronimo said:
Is it okay to paint a naked woman without any clothing in his body showing his breast and butt? Can I paint a potrait like this and becomes an offer to God as a form of worship?

thanks for your very kind answers!!!
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Let Pope John Paul II answer your question:

“Sexual modesty cannot then in any simple way be identified with the use of clothing, nor shamelessness with the absence of clothing and total or partial nakedness. There are circumstances in which nakedness is not immodest… Nakedness as such is not to be equated with physical shamelessness. Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person… The human body is not in itself shameful, nor for the same reasons are sensual reactions, and human sensuality in general. Shamelessness (just like shame and modesty) is a function of the interior of a person.”
Pope John Paul II (nee Karol Cardinal Wojtyla) [in “Love & Responsibility”, 1981]

In other words, unless looking at a nude model is going to present a temptation to you, it’s fine.

Gary
 
heronimo said:
no not like that! That is a nude painting by michael angelo and I know it is okay for the church because it is a biblical revelation of the last judgement but what I’m trying to say is, How if it is not connect in any Christian phenomena?
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Hello! Nom the Wise here, with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Did you paint these? If you didn’t, you had better cite who did. NOW. Is this copyright infringement?

So who painted these? (I haven’t seen every painting ever painted, so I’ll be embarrassed if these are Monets I’ve never seen…but I doubt it).

(I’m beginning to smell a rat. Does anyone else smell it? My apologies if I’m wrong…)
 
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