So DeviantArt.com (don’t worry. the name makes my wife afraid, and maybe you 2, but the site is really ok…except for a few potty words and the odd B&W nude art shot. You have to make your own life calls on seeking those things or not) is having a photo contest. It is on the seven deadly sins.
Long before the Brad Pritt movie, the sins were in a list Pope Gregory created some time in the 6th century. The sins he listed were:
1. Superbia / Pride
2. Invidia / Envy
3. Ira / Anger
4. Avaritia / Avarice
5. Tristia / Sadness
6. Gula / Gluttony
7. Luxuria / Lust
Sadness was later voted off the show and replaced with sloth.
They became an easy measure of serious spiritual failure and jeopardy of the soul (hence the “deadly” part). They became a teaching tool, a process of confession, and the subject of much medieval spiritual art in Europe.
Artists have made icons and paintings of the sins.
So you photographers, here is a chance to interact with an online community of artists, practice your art, and well, not be slothful (or prideful).
I hope to see Terra Novians in this contest.
I enjoy deviantart and link it on my blog.
I know what you mean about the name, though. My absolute favorite wallpaper site is called digitalblasphemy. :-)
oh yeah, digital blasphemy is the best
It would seem strange to me to see Christians, who stand for truth, purity and beauty, mixing their art with nudes and other worldly art forms. Maybe I’m just new to this “post-modern” way of Christianity. Can someone help me out?
As a Christian, a male, and a guy who is pursuing being a devoted husband, I am not looking at nor producing nude art. though I would argue in the right context, and right light, nudity can be beautiful.
I am not sure it is really a postmodernity issue- take the Sistine Chapel brought up issues and nuditity in the church long before pomo was a tired term.
I put my art out for people…not pomos, not christians, not pagans. For me the themes i express in my own techinically crude ways are life, place, and meaning- which i believe emanate from God. I am happy when people can connect to them.
I am also glad to connect God to expressions of the art of others. Like one hero of mine, St. Paul, I have discussd God from art that did not recognize Him. For a good example of this, read Acts 17 and search out what poets and poems Paul quotes.
By writing words, painting, or producing film we are not endorsing everything ever written, painted or filmed.
I hope that explains more clearly what i meant, crazyjoe.
one question to help me, what do you define as “worldly art forms”?