Opus 2025-428: God’s Favorite Artist

If God were to visit an art museum, I wonder which room or style of art He would spend most of His time considering?  I know I would want to go to the Remington displays and enjoy the action packed presentation.  I would spend absolutely no time with Picasso.

I think God would enjoy Picasso more than Remington.  I’m using Picasso as an example because he’s the only name that comes to mind for that genre of artwork, the kind which looks like the artist was having a bad dream and did a good job of portraying it.  Impressionistic?  I don’t know.  But I know what I like.  I’m just guessing that what God would like.

I got started down this road thinking about how we were created in the image of God.  That took me to thinking of the statue of David and some of the bronze works that I’ve seen in pictures.  Does that marble statue actually represent David?  Not even close.  It is impossible to take the complexity and details of a human being and carve them in stone.  In the same way, it would be impossible to draw a picture of God who is spirit using physical mediums.

That’s when you have art, or what is called art by the specialist, that looks like somebody took a pile of tinker toys, gummy bears, and melted Legos, and threw them at the canvas.  You might come close to representing the mystery of God.  Your picture would make no sense to someone thinking logically but might strike a cord in someone who is just going for the gestalt experience.

I know God is not an old man with a flowing beard sitting on an ornate throne.  I know that no picture I’ve ever seen even comes close to representing God yet I recognize what the artist is attempting to do.  I can actually get a closer idea of what God is like by reading what the Bible has to say about Jesus.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder someone said.  The image of God is in the soul of the individual.

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