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What is the purpose, if any, of art?
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opus101
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Looks like you’re sunk, then.
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opus101
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It shows nothing of the sort.
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Ryuji_Yamazaki
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Check Isaiah 19.11. Hint: Jesus is son of the wise God & son of the ancient king David.
Egypt, Pharaoh? Hint: Revelation 11.8 & the province of what empire, having the name of its foremost city, was Palestine?
Conclusion?
Egypt, Pharaoh? Hint: Revelation 11.8 & the province of what empire, having the name of its foremost city, was Palestine?
Conclusion?
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tonyrey
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Your God is not the infinitely loving Father revealed to us by Jesus.
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gwarald
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Au contraire! The Father and Son share the same dreadful character. It all depends on your relationship to them:
Isaiah 63.3, “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart…”
Revelation 6.15-17, “The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
To bring this back to the original subject, I guess we point out the artful usage of these verses in the depiction of God’s wrath.
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Ryuji_Yamazaki
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Jesus = God?
The whole controversy of believers v. atheists is a red herring. The man of sin is most Christian.
Are you then blind? Have you still not understood that the man of sin, that son of perdition shall sit in the temple of God only confirming the belief of billions of walking corpses, namely that Jesus = God?
The whole controversy of believers v. atheists is a red herring. The man of sin is most Christian.
Do you think that Jesus keeps the whole earth in his Father’s name? Of course no, only those who see his inward Spirit. So does the man of sin except he denies the Spirit.
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nmgauss
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The purpose of art is to construct designs of visual, verbal, or sound phenomena based on one’s interpretation of the words, sounds, shapes, and colors that the artist is exposed to or imagines from dreams, or the use of hallucinating drugs, alcohol, loco weed, etc.
Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” as a distortion of a real night scene. Ansel Adams took photographs of Yosemite in black and white, which is a distortion of reality, and then developed his film to achieve effects based on his interpretation of what he saw. I still don’t know what Stravinsky wanted to achieve in the “Rite of Spring”, but Disney’s visual depiction of dinosaur fights is what sticks in my mind.
Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” as a distortion of a real night scene. Ansel Adams took photographs of Yosemite in black and white, which is a distortion of reality, and then developed his film to achieve effects based on his interpretation of what he saw. I still don’t know what Stravinsky wanted to achieve in the “Rite of Spring”, but Disney’s visual depiction of dinosaur fights is what sticks in my mind.
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JB_Dugan
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s value-judgments.
Man’s need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual. In other words, he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness.
Art fulfills this need by means of a selective re-creation, it focuses man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells him which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant and important.
Art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence.
Man’s need of art lies in the fact that his cognitive faculty is conceptual. In other words, he acquires knowledge by means of abstractions, and needs the power to bring his widest abstractions into his immediate, perceptual awareness.
Art fulfills this need by means of a selective re-creation, it focuses man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. It tells him which aspects of his experience are to be regarded as essential, significant and important.
Art teaches man how to use his consciousness. It conditions or stylizes man’s consciousness by conveying to him a certain way of looking at existence.
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michaelhager
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I am an artist. I build, paint draw, sing and play musical instruments. It is in my nature. Reading through all these posts I was struck by a thought… God created us all in His image. The Great Creator. Creator of Heaven and Earth.
What is art, but our own earthly attempt at creation. Formed in His images, why would we not also strive to be creators? There is much beauty in God’s creations. Amazing sunsets or Sunrises, a beautiful glen in a forest, or the majesty of waves crashing on a rocky shore.
We are not all “artists” in the aesthetic sense, but there are other creators among us, those who create the things we use every day, the creators of radio, video, lights, stoves, vehicles. These things we don;t consider “Art” but are they no less beautiful?
The purpose of art then seems to me to be an outlet through which we return the gifts God gave is at the creation of “Us”. Those gifts that in our tiny, insignificant way, reflect us as the perfectly made image of Him.
What is art, but our own earthly attempt at creation. Formed in His images, why would we not also strive to be creators? There is much beauty in God’s creations. Amazing sunsets or Sunrises, a beautiful glen in a forest, or the majesty of waves crashing on a rocky shore.
We are not all “artists” in the aesthetic sense, but there are other creators among us, those who create the things we use every day, the creators of radio, video, lights, stoves, vehicles. These things we don;t consider “Art” but are they no less beautiful?
The purpose of art then seems to me to be an outlet through which we return the gifts God gave is at the creation of “Us”. Those gifts that in our tiny, insignificant way, reflect us as the perfectly made image of Him.
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truetofaith
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Your answer is perfect!!!
I play music and also paint & both those activities affect people and sometimes lead them to Christ.- Status