Art and Worship
Well, I said it only 2 days ago in Modern Christian Art in Churches, and now here is Father W. Thomas Faucher, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise, Idaho relating how using new works of art in the major renovation of his church has impacted favorably on the worship of his congregation.
Modern Christian Art in Churches
Seems like the days when the greatest of contemporary art resided in churches are long gone. I for one think we need a revival. And from what I hear, there are pastors who feel the same way.
Modern Art Speaks in the Daily Kansan
A student at Kanses University describes in The University Daily Kansan how for the first time he made a connection with a piece of modern art, and how that experience led him to a better undrstanding of what modern art is about.
Saint Francis – Art Compared
Right now there is an exhibition of Spanish Painting and Sculpture on at the National Gallery in London featuring religious works from the 17th Century Spanish Golden Age, including Spain’s remarkable polychrome sculptures.
Michael Smither: St Francis in Ecstasy
This second painting of Saint Francis by Michael Smither depicts the patron saint of ecology – Smither’s favorite saint – in a state of ecstasy in the presence of nature. Like many NZ artists, Michael is strongly influenced by the landscape.
More Christian Wallpaper Art
This is an invitation to visit my Flickr Photostream Set entitled “Christian Wallpapers”, where I currently have a dozen images on display – my first upload of Christian Artworks to Flickr.
Motives For Destroying Art
In the first of 2 articles based on BBC TV’s new art series “Art Attack”, Lawrence Pollard, the series presenter, draws on some historical examples to explain attacks on both secular and christian artworks, and the destructive element in the work of some modern artists.
Art From Death Row
An Art show with a difference in Oakland CA showcases art created by death row residents at San Quentin, “Oakland North” – a news project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism – reports today.
Cross-Stitch Art Starts With a Blank Canvas
Allene Moses of Athens, US creates complex and detailed Christian counted cross-stitch art, starting with a blank canvas and no visual cues on the cloth, reports the Daily Post Athenian in an article published today.
Michael Smither: “I Would Have Been a Franciscan”
“If I hadn’t become a painter, I would have been a Franciscan,” is how Christian artist Michael Smither described himself in an interview with the New Zealand Women’s Weekly in 1969.