The Faith of an Artist, A Response to Casey Klahn
As today is Sunday, my thoughts usually turn to faith each Sunday. I recently read a post by Casey Klahn over at “The Colorist” about the faith of Vincent Van Gogh.
Perhaps I am attracted to Casey’s art because we share the same educational background. We both have our BA in Biblical Theology and are influenced by the work of Vincent Van Gogh in our styles to some degree. (Him probably much more than I).
Casey mentioned this below and I quite agree with this statement.
But I don’t know how, without bald redaction, one can study the artist van Gogh without his faith, or art history (western) without Christ. It would seem to be impossible.
While in this post I may seem to be a religious nut, I guess I am to some degree, I usually place my Christian perspective on other blogs that are more suited for that purpose. I fear I have neglected the obvious nature that art is so much a form of the expression of faith. In today’s message, I used the image that Raphael painted of the Transfiguration of Christ.
I think this is an excellent reference point for the way art has been interpreted over the years as a form of expression and relating stories of our faith. It is in this that we owe most of our current techniques and forms as well as the way that imagery is developed for the purpose of relating a story.
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casey
Mar 11, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Well, Vincent van Gogh had a religious “mania”, you see, when he was doing his apprenticeship as a missionary to the miners in the Low Countries.
However, when he expressed the same focus and zeal as a painter, he was a “modernist”.
This dichotomy made me scratch my head, and read deeper…
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