Talk:Christian art

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Contents 1 Christian Art today is finding a resurgence among Catholics and Protestants 2 Removing nonsense 3 Christian Art as a general topic 4 Addressing Contemporary Christian Art 5 Ron DiCianni

[edit] Christian Art today is finding a resurgence among Catholics and Protestants

Does anybody have any hallmark examples of people who are leading modern-day christian artistic movements?

Also, I removed a comment related to "young christians" as the term does not relate to all christians. Also, even if the sentence were altered to only include Catholics and Protestants then I disagree with the usage of young as it is too relative (who is young? teenagers? 30 year olds? someone younger than you?). Adding this in is purely fluff and only adds to the question "If more 'young' people are working on christian art, then where is it and who are they?". Even skimming the surface of this rather broad question would be more useful than the sentence that was removed.

--sp00n17:talk 20:54, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I would like to know if there is any reason why some crucifixions are represented with three nails (one nail for the two feet) while others have four (two nails for the feet).

[edit] Removing nonsense

In an effort to keep this page on topic about overarching topics in christina art, I removed the following:

Original Text:
Christians were often the innovators in the area of architecture    
because of their desire to communicate the transcendance of God.  
This was clearly seen as early as in the 4th Century with the 
Hagia Sophia in Constantinople(currently Istanbul).
Before the Reformation, and the invention of the printing 
press, most people were not literate, and therefore the artwork 
in the churches and the buildings themselves were the primary  
form in which the Bible stories were communicated.

Principle reasons:

1. Not all churches were built to convey the desire to communicate "the transcendance of god". Many churches were made to resemble boats or crosses and most certainly, not all churches are Hagia Sophia.
2. After the Reformation everybody in all of Christendom didn't learn how to read, which the statement "Before the Reformation, and the printing press, most people were not literate.." would have you to believe.

--sp00n17:talk 19:08, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Christian Art as a general topic

I cleaned up the Christian art page to represent the most generic aspects of Christian art. Examples specific to a particular denomination are encouraged to link off of this page, but keep this page otherwise as generic as possible.

Of course the more interesting topic, Sexuality and Christian Art is its own node now and is linked off of this page in the "human conditions" section. Sp00n17 08:13, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Addressing Contemporary Christian Art

Per Sp00n's comment/request I have added info relating to the trend setters in Contemporary Christian art. It would be great if we could get some examples of their work to add to the page... anyone know how to do that?

thx!

[edit] Ron DiCianni

The first to do this successfully was Ron DiCianni, who in 1992 created a painting called Spiritual Warfare which went on to become one of the best selling Limited Edition Prints of the decade. As DiCianni blazed the trail he influenced others to join him in what he described as a mission of "Reclaiming the Arts for Christ"tm. As other artists began to join DiCianni and decided to make the transition to painting solely Christ centered art some standouts began to emerge.

I have moved this to talk because it is totally un-referenced and reads like spam. Needs something to back this up. Fountains of Bryn Mawr 14:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)