Art

Pardon one more Redeemer plug: April is Arts Month and I'm looking forward to my own version of Arts Month--

Irving Penn's Portraits at the Morgan Museum (Picasso below)





















The Whitney Biennial













And the film, "The Flight of the Red Balloon" at The Paris Theater















Something worth pondering for all the aspiring artists out there:

"As believers making art to the glory of God, goodness is not merely something to strive for in our morality, but is also something we should attempt to communicate through our aesthetic efforts.

Portraying "good" well, however is excruciatingly difficult. The efforts of most artists who attempt to present a picture of "good" tend toward dishonest, sugary sweet propaganda. They ignore the implications of the Fall and paint the world as a shiny, happy place. Usually "goodness" or "good" is ignored in favoring of pursuing negative themes or motifs.

...followers of Christ who labor in the arts must take up the subject of "good" or "goodness" to the glory of God. They need to struggle to understand it and to present it in such a way that a world--forgetful of true goodness since the Fall can be taught what the word means, and so be led to the only good One. This is a unique opportunity."

~Ned Bustard, "It was Good--Making Art to the Glory of God"