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Yeshua upon the Tree: A Terrible Beauty, an Immense Paradox

  • 01-02-2009 2:05pm
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    YeshuaupontheTree-terriblebeauty.jpg

    I would like some feedback please. But first I pause and recognize that this art may disturb many. How the cross can be a thing of beauty is strange to those that are not its adherents. Those of the Faith view the suffering and death as Divine love and mercy for all humanity. Indeed, it is a terrible beauty, an immense paradox.

    For the most part, in this country we tend to make Christ look like he was a man out of European culture, or sometimes African American. I like the idea of Christ looking more like a Jewish man, side locks of hair and all. I did it that way because I have never seen him depicted on a cross in a manner that authentically indicates that he was a Jew. His hair has the hint of "ruddy" so as to suggest that he is from the line of King David, like the scriptures tell that Messiah would be.

    http://www.thouforsaken.blogspot.com/

    My pencil drawing and some details about the art are at the site, as well as some ideas behind the art and things that I needed to get off my chest. If you are not into the talk just check out the art. The art encapsulates the written ideas that are there anyway. My art is a mixed media sandwich made up of many, many layers of digital painting with my pencil drawing being the meat in the middle.

    Bonfires and/or torches burn below the cross – because the sky went dark. What about the sparks, keep them or not?

    Peace.


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