Art

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Art
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2 questions
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• How do we decide whether something
• is or is not Art?

Question 1
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IS NOT

• IS

IS NOT
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Question 2

• What is Art?

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Art The Depiction of A Theological Worldview
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Art is forever changing.

• Plato The Republic
• Arthur Shopenhauer The Sublime
• Martin Heidegger The Thing
• Jacques Derrida Deconstruction
• Pierre Bourdieu Art as a social
• construction

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• Art is the depiction of a worldview a depiction
  of an individuals and their societys theology.

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Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)?

• The Gap

Physical
Spiritual
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Before Aquinas

• Symbols and idealized images
• St. Augustine Original Sin

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After Aquinas

• Giotto di Bondone
• (ca. 1266-1337)?
• Francis Schaeffer
• artist painted natural things naturally
  with symbolic figures.
  
• Madonna Enthroned, 1310

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• Fra Filippo Lippi

Depiction of specific individual to represent the
Virgin Mary
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when nature is made autonomous, it is
destructive.-Schaeffer
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)?

• A discontent with the Gap
• The mechanics showed the meaning

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Why things worked?
Protestant Reformation
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Raphael (1483-1511)?
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Michelangelo (1475-1564)?
David
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Sistine Chapel
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Last Judgment
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Jacopo da PontormoDescent from the Cross
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Matthias Grunewald (1480-1528)?
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NaturalismNeo-Classicism
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Modern art and Abstraction

• A return to symbols
• Symbols are all that are capable of expressing
  the inexpressible

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View of HUMANITY and the PHYSICAL
Hopeless
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The refusal to belong to any school of thought,
the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of
beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and
a marked dissatisfaction with traditional
philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote
from life". -Walter Kaufmann God is Dead
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Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Gay Science
• (Joyous Wisdom)?
• God is dead, because we killed him.

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Ravi Zacharias

• Secularization
• Religious ideas, institutions, and
  interpretations have lost their social
  significance
  
• Pluralism
• A competing number of world views available to
  its members and no world view is dominant.
  
• Privatization
• A cleavage between the public and private life of
  the individual with the crystallization of
  meaning in the private.

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This is our world today.The arts have heard
it...
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Acceptance Processes

• Every human being assesses information presented
  to him or her.

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Modern Mental Pyramid

• Experience and Emotions

Reason and Logic
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Experience and Emotions
Post-modern Mental Pyramid

• Reason and Logic

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Mental Process in Transition

• Reason and Logic

Experience and Emotions
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Process of Accepting Public Presentations
Execution
Content
Language
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Moderns
Content
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Moderns
Content
Language
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Moderns
Content
Language
Execution
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Postmoderns
Execution
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Postmoderns
Execution
Language
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Postmoderns
Content
Execution
Language
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The arts have heard it...

• Search the arts of the problems and questions
• Postmodern Christians vs. Postmodern Seculars
• What is all this going to look like?

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Art is the depiction of a theological
worldview

• Christians have separated themselves from the
  development of art.
  
• Christians must listen to secular arts to
  understand what the problem is and what the
  questions are.
  
• art is the fundamental means of telling the
  truth. -Gaebelein