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This essay explores the place of art in the life of the Christian.
The Tabernacle and Solomon's Temple were built with specific attention
to detail as declared by the Lord. Within the details were instructions
for artisans to create abstract art, as well as representations
of angels and nature.
Read the description of these structures and imagine the message
the images contained within might have conveyed to the on-looker.
The God of the Old Testament made a point to speak to the soul
through visual art forms. Schaeffer's essay touches on the main
debates within the Church concerning art forms, and ‘why’
it is important for the Christian to consider modern day forms of
art.
No work of art is more important than the Christian’s
own life, and every Christian is cared upon to be an artist in this
sense. He may have no gift of writing, no gift of composing or singing,
but each man has the gift of creativity in terms of the way he lives
his life. In this sense, the Christian’s life is to be an
art work. The Christian’s life is to be a thing of truth and
also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
2006, F. Schaeffer, Pg. 94
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I have been looking for an in-depth study on art; it's relation
to the soul, culture and so on and so forth. I dare not attempt
to guess at the money I spent on books that I hoped would reveal
the info that I sought. All of them fell short... until this book
by Rene Huyghe.
This book is overflowing with thought provoking quotes and theories.
Some of the topics covered include the following: Form & Intellect,
Light & Life, Color & the Spirit of Man, Art & Ideas,
Art & the Nation, Art & the Individual, and Art & the
Irrational.
... There are two languages, and the language of art has a
mission of its own. "Woe to him who sees only a precise idea
in a good picture, and woe to the picture that shows nothing beyond
the finite." For "what makes the value of the painting
is what is indefinable in it: the very thing that eludes precision."
1962, R. Huyghe, Pg. 21
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