Art thread?

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
Lynx

Lynx

Folksy yet erudite
#2
Aug 13, 2014
24,924
8,170
113
#2
Are we talking painting, sculpture, music, video... What kind of art?
 
Eli1

Eli1

Well-known member
#3
Apr 5, 2022
3,268
1,116
113
46
#3
This is a good idea. I wanted to open a topic once about art but i wasn't sure on the specifics. There is also a media section of the forum here but i don't frequent it that much.
But yeah, i'll follow the lead here wherever it goes.
 
AmazingGrace

AmazingGrace

Member
#9
Oct 15, 2023
46
28
18
#9
Eli1 said:
This is a good idea. I wanted to open a topic once about art but i wasn't sure on the specifics. There is also a media section of the forum here but i don't frequent it that much.
But yeah, i'll follow the lead here wherever it goes.
Click to expand...
I understand - thank you for your reply ;) AG
 
Eli1

Eli1

Well-known member
#11
Apr 5, 2022
3,268
1,116
113
46
#11
I don't like painting but i like church art - meaning - i like to view the iconography of the churches, it's beautiful. I also like modern spiritual art or 3d art, this includes some Mormon works i think.
I also like pictures of nature or animals in the wild. In general i enjoy when someone paints a situation from the Bible and turn it into an actual thing you can see with your eyes and imagine how thing might have been.

Here's one example.

616SmOBZpZL._AC_SL1000_.jpg
 
AmazingGrace

AmazingGrace

Member
#13
Oct 15, 2023
46
28
18
#13
Eli1 said:
I don't like painting but i like church art - meaning - i like to view the iconography of the churches, it's beautiful. I also like modern spiritual art or 3d art, this includes some Mormon works i think.
I also like pictures of nature or animals in the wild. In general i enjoy when someone paints a situation from the Bible and turn it into an actual thing you can see with your eyes and imagine how thing might have been.

Here's one example.

View attachment 256693
Click to expand...
I do digital colouring on my iPad with apple pencil [I upload colouring pages]. I enjoy it. AG
 
Eli1

Eli1

Well-known member
#14
Apr 5, 2022
3,268
1,116
113
46
#14
AmazingGrace said:
I do digital colouring on my iPad with apple pencil [I upload colouring pages]. I enjoy it. AG
Click to expand...
That's nice. Share a few if you'd like.
Personally i don't like painting because i'm not good at it but i do enjoy other's paintings - that's how i appreciate church iconography for example. Those guys are really talented.
 
AmazingGrace

AmazingGrace

Member
#16
Oct 15, 2023
46
28
18
#16
These are the recent ones I have done. I know it's simple. Apologies for the simplicity. AG [I truly find joy it in].
 

Attachments

Eli1

Eli1

Well-known member
#17
Apr 5, 2022
3,268
1,116
113
46
#17
Here is a picture of Jesus with the children. This was painted by a Danish painter.
Look at how life-like his work is and you can almost feel being in this setting with Jesus present. I really like this one. I first saw it about 10 years ago.

Let_the_Little_Children_Come_unto_Jesus.jpg
 
AmazingGrace

AmazingGrace

Member
#18
Oct 15, 2023
46
28
18
#18
Eli1 said:
Here is a picture of Jesus with the children. This was painted by a Danish painter.
Look at how life-like his work is and you can almost feel being in this setting with Jesus present. I really like this one. I first saw it about 10 years ago.

View attachment 256707
Click to expand...
I love it. Can't wait until that day! AG
 
Gojira

Gojira

Well-known member
#20
Jul 20, 2021
5,735
2,310
113
Mesa, AZ
#20
For me, the classics are the last true bastion of art in the West. Golden toilets, black canvasses... sorry, those are mockeries.

From the ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment, I think the West had its artistic peak, both in terms of visual art and music.

Most people today do not understand what art is, what's purpose is, or what makes it good (I said "most" because there are isolated exceptions). Photo-realism is not what makes something good art. Feelings / emotions thrown onto a canvass is not a formula for good art. Shocking your audience with crudeness is not what makes good art.

I hope real art will have a resurrection when Jesus comes to restore all things.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.