[Basilissa]

Re: An Opportunity to Learn Fine Art

That is a monster, Mr. Mayor. True greatness. Here's another one from Iowa: Coffee Pot Water Tower (Stanton, Iowa). Sorry I don't have the stats for it.

Now I'm curious: at their homes, do their faucets come in latte and macchiato instead of cold and hot?

[Dennis Lukes]

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As a motel owner, I think it would be fair to say that I'm something of an authority on fine art. A number of the rooms in the Blood of Christ Motel are blessed with Thomas Kinkade prints. Kinkade is a rare example of an artist who glorifies God in his works, as you can clearly see from the image below of my personal favorite, The Cross:



An important medium in the realm of fine arts is the velvet canvas. This is a art form, and Americana is its most frequent subject. Clowns and cowboys, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, none of that Satanic garbage is represented on the walls of the Blood of Christ Motel. However, I do have two John Waynes, one Dale Earnhardt, and this masterpiece:



There is another form of art, though this is a lesser domestic art as practiced by women, not a fine art. My wife Doris and her friends enjoy knitting, crocheting, and all that other needle string crap when they're not cooking for their husbands or gossiping. I have to admit, those ladies can make a fine faith-based quilt. All of the beds in the Blood of Christ Motel are blessed with a hand-made comforter such as this:

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Biden just dumped some of President Trump's members of the Commission on Fine Arts. My impression was we were making progress with Trump's people--they were getting ready to award some of these artists from Middle America.

Our work is cut out for us. We need to make know to the world the Mitchell Corn Palace and these other examples of fine art.

Biden replacing four Trump-appointed members of US Commission of Fine Arts | TheHill

[MitzaLizalor]

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Satan has been very active at Denver airport. Words fail me. Here are two pictures.

[MitzaLizalor]

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That is a monster, Mr. Mayor. True greatness. Here's another one from Iowa: Coffee Pot Water Tower (Stanton, Iowa). Sorry I don't have the stats for it.

There seemed to be a problem with your picture, I hope you don't mind a smaller version (original linked, though) anyway, looking through some of this art and/or "art" there were two stand-out points. One is from Deuteronomy and concerns God's commandment not to make any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth. "Any" suggests that size is irrelevant, for example the Buddha was a human being, one who sat under a tree and discovered a demon, so a Buddha (statue) is a likeness of a thing that is in the earth beneath. Some of them are enormous. But that doesn't mean they're OK with God. The same must apply to cows whether art or not - but perhaps I've got this wrong?

"Art," on the other hand, is often abstract or utterly unfathomable to any sane person. There is the excellent example of some freak who sold her installation piece to a museum or art gallery or whatever and they put it in pride of place ready for the grand unveiling tomorrow. Who knows how many millions they paid for it? That night the janitorial consultants arrived. "Wow," they said. "The day shift are total s they haven't touched this room and the new exhibition is due to go in; we better get busy."

Which they duly did, throwing out all this rubbish just in time for the dumpsters to be collected, which they were, and everything was incinerated. Next morning etc., etc., the point being that the pile of rubbish WAS the installation piece. The artist was immensely gratified. Her art "a pile of rubbish" was indistinguishable from an actual pile of rubbish and rubbish professionals had engaged with her work to the extent of actually incinerating it. Visitors to the space could enhance its artistic qualities even further by gazing at the empty floor. After all, the essence of piles of rubbish is that they need to be cleaned away. I could go on.

Cows. There are Holsteins, Herefords, Guernseys, those little brown Irish things, Anguses and so on but none of them are square. Not even the Belgians have produced a square cow. So is this thing, "art" or art (take your pick but I'm going with "art") - is this thing idolatrous?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Cows. There are Holsteins, Herefords, Guernseys, those little brown Irish things, Anguses and so on but none of them are square. Not even the Belgians have produced a square cow. So is this thing, "art" or art (take your pick but I'm going with "art") - is this thing idolatrous?

I think the message of the artist is, "Floods tip over cows. Sometimes they are found upsidedown in trees." Powerful indeed.

Here is another powerful piece in Rothsay, Minnesota. It's message is, "We male prairie chickens are more powerful and beautiful than females."

[MitzaLizalor]

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Yes, that is a powerful structure. One opportunity often overlooked is the combination of art with structural engineering. Architects are probably to blame, when designs choose to mock rather than to glorify God. Here for example is a customs building where smugglers would attempt to bamboozle the authorities into believing their statue (which is actually a statue) was not in fact opium. So warped would their perception become, when approaching the building, that they'd double- double-talk themselves into a confession without the expense of forensic psychiatrists to conduct an interview. "What is this?" "A statue." "It's a funny looking statue." "I know; it's made from low grade stone and has very little value." "Then why are you importing it?" "Because I have bad taste as do my friends unto whom I plan selling the thing." Here is the building:



Our poor demented opium-statue smuggler will get so twisted up beholding the monstrosity that he'll go completely off script "What is this?" "An opium." "It's a funny looking opium." "I know; it's made from low grade statue and has tremendous value." "Then *why don't you import it?" "Because I'm trying to circumvent customs regulations by pretending it's an opium \ I mean statue \ no it's not \ 100% opium and how much duty is payable on your list for opium \ I mean statue \ no I'm not I never said opium \ opium selling now good price how much d'ya want?"

Economical on enhanced interrogation, sure, but the architect will know how to charge and for such a project there'll be special union requirements, ticket for large-scale art appreciation, finer tolerances for artistic installations, personal development workshops to inure oneself against hypnosis from shifting B&W op-art perspectives moving around the site?

God.
Where is God in this.
Christians understand The Bible and know the difference between "art" and art.
Satan luuuurves the "art" but only Jesus Saves. Hallelujah!!



*[trick question]

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

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With rare exceptions - some of which are posted in this thread - art has taken a wrong turn. Fortunately there are Christians who are more than willing to help get everyone back on track with special Bible art products you can buy. (By the way, if anyone's kid "gets messy" on my Bible there will be hell to pay).

Here are a few of my favorite tips for people who are new to Bible Art Journaling:

1. Use your personal Bible or select a new journaling Bible that has extra wide margins. I contributed many of the illustrations to the new Beautiful Word Bible and just love the lightly lined spaces where I can create more art or simply trace over the illustration on the next or previous page, adding my own thoughts or word art.

2. Start your quiet time by turning on your favorite Christian music or sitting where you can take time to slow down and reflect on what passages God is placing on your heart. Begin with prayer or devotions. Review your latest sermon notes or Bible study reflections. Look up favorite verses.

3. You don’t need to spend a lot of money on supplies right away. Begin with crayons or colored pencils and highlighters, then feel free to add other supplies (like my new line of Illustrated Faith resources from Dayspring), creating in the margins or coloring into the passage. Some people like to color code passages as they relate to parenting or marriage or heaven or other topics found in Scripture. Again, there is no wrong way to do this – just always tie it back to the word.

4. Get messy! When you get more comfortable, try adding stamps, different types of pens, scrapbooking stickers and words, even watercolor paints! Don’t worry about bleed-through. I always test supplies in the last few pages of my Bibles to see how they will interact with the Bible paper. It’s a good practice area too.

5. Think about dating your entries, as this worship expression is good to return to days and years later, to recall God’s leading in your life. Check out this date stamp (it’s my personal favorite).

6. Consider having a Bible where your highlighted passages will become a special memory and inspiration as an heirloom to be passed down to your children and their children someday. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. — Deuteronomy 6:4-8.

7. No matter what, remember that this is your personal form of worship

[Isabella White]

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God.
Where is God in this.
Christians understand The Bible and know the difference between "art" and art.
Satan luuuurves the "art" but only Jesus Saves. Hallelujah!!
*[trick question]

Good Heaven help us all, dear Sister Mitza! That building is a monstrosity. You are so right here: "Where is in this"?

It sort of reminds me, a bit, of another monstrosity that I saw years ago, when I was visiting Agatha (my sister) in Toronto, Canada (also known as HOE -- on Earth). Clearly, when they constructed the building in the attached photo below, they must have been worried about when the would visit them with wrath and fury, possibly being fearful of a flood, as punishment for their intolerable sins.

Ezekiel 25:17 "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the , when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."

Well, regardless of how far above the ground they build these eyesores, it won't matter. Nothing shall be hidden from the power and might of Almighty when the delivers a rebuke!

Proverbs 30:4 "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?"

Ezekiel 3:18 "When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand."

[Johny Joe Hold]

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I've never heard the explanation or message of this grasshopper in North Dakota. Around the globe there are so many statues of fake gods like Apollo and Venus. Only in the Middle West do we have artists doing grasshoppers. We live in an art lovers paradise:

[handmaiden]

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Probably designed by a woman who had no business becoming an architect. It looks as if it were held up by aluminum knitting needles.

[Isabella White]

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Probably designed by a woman who had no business becoming an architect. It looks as if it were held up by aluminum knitting needles.

Most undoubtedly so, dear Sister Handmaiden. And since this building that's propped up by knitting needles is in the heart of "China Town" in Toronto, one suspects that it was built by a Chinese woman; if so, she may have been inspired by colorful chopsticks. And we all know what their reputation is like when it comes to building things!

[Dennis Lukes]

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HAVE YOU BEEN TO JESUS FOR THE CLEANSING POWER?



ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?




ARE YOU FULLY TRUSTING IN HIS GRACE THIS HOUR?

ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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One would think with all the great art minds on either coast, the Guggenheim blah blah, it would be there we would first see a most famous depiction of Jesus. I'm referring to Touchdown Jesus. But no, it was created in South Bend Indiana:

[Dennis Lukes]

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But no, it was created in South Bend Indiana:

South Bend? The city so sinful it elected a homosexual to be its mayor? I can just picture the Butt man driving past the statue and flipping it off, a haughty expression on his squirrelish face.