/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

[Anonymous No.3453201]

>Spirituality elevates artistic endeavors - Michelangelo

Will faith make you a better artist?

[Anonymous No.3453220]

Not "faith" alone, but faith in Christ, absolutely. Pray the Lord's Prayer and branch out from there.

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[Anonymous No.3453230]

>>3453201
>Will faith make you a better artist?
yes. as long as it's real faith with knowledge about life and morality.

[Anonymous No.3453235]

>>3453220
Elaborate on how faith in Christ makes you better at drawing pictures

[Anonymous No.3453240]

>>3453235
Having access to infinite power is of real benefit -- particularly in terms of processing concepts and patterns that have been recognized throughout the day. You will notice coincidences that oblige you to meditate on them extensively, and the force of certain revelations will propell you through hours of concentrated drawing.

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[Anonymous No.3453251]

>>3453240
This is too esoteric for the layman, can you please explain with examples or personal experiences?

[Anonymous No.3453265]

>>3453251
Even the specifics are esoteric.
For example, many years ago I was looking through a book of paintings and one stood out in particular. Later on that day, I heard of an artist with the same family name as the painting. Finally I heard that my aunt was dying. So when I considered my aunt, I also had to come up with a prayer/blessing for this artist that I didn't know on the spot. I just said, "send them to school, give them a good education, teach them the use of oil paints, and when they've achieved something special, I'll meet them during a low point in my own life. Then my aunt will die. From that moment on, I will absorb what this new artist has learned and become better with each passing year."

[Anonymous No.3453597]

can you be an artist at all without faith?

[Anonymous No.3453604]

>>3453201
spirituality in terms of meditating can def help you be a better artist
Meditating and self-reflection can help you know more about yourself. This is helpful when dealing with stressful situations, how to keep composure, increase your focus and clarity of the mind

[Anonymous No.3453690]

>>3453604
self-reflection is important but so is dignity of man. DO NOT MEDITATE

[Anonymous No.3453823]

Unironically yes.

[Anonymous No.3453831]

>>3453265
what the fuck ru talking about dude

[Anonymous No.3453859]

>>3453823
horrid

[Anonymous No.3453861]

A lot of you guys ain’t spiritual people. Spirituality would alleviate negativity.

[Anonymous No.3453869]

>>3453861
>see christians

[Anonymous No.3453873]

>>3453869
I don’t know the difference between spiritual and religious.

[Anonymous No.3453875]

>>3453873
*u

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[Anonymous No.3453982]

>>3453923
rembrandt was the greatest

[Anonymous No.3454018]

>>3453235
God is the creator. Man is made in the image of God, therefore he is fundamentally a subcreator. The Christian artist must ground himself in the hierarchy of the Beautiful (Beauty is one of the three transcendentals), whereas the naturalist artist becomes divorced from the transcendent and gradually descends into nihilism or a sterile worldliness.

>In Christianity the divine image par excellence is the human form of the Christ; thus it comes about that Christian art has but one purpose: the transfiguration of man, and of the world which depends on man, by their participation in the Christ. - Titus Burckhardt

>The decadence of Christian art, right up to its most recent phases, is above all a decadence of the image of man: the image of God-made-man, transmitted by medieval art, is succeeded by the image of autonomous man, of man glorifying himself, in the art of the Renaissance. This illusory autonomy implies from the first the “loss of the center,” for man is no longer truly man when he no longer has his center in God; thereafter the image of man decomposes; first it is replaced, as regards dignity, by other aspects of nature, and then it is progressively destroyed; its systematic negation and disfigurement is the goal of modern art. - Titus Burckhardt

>“Art in the middle ages was ‘art for God’s sake’; art in the Renaissance was ‘art for man’s sake’; art in the 19th century was ‘art for art’s sake’; now art in the 20th century is ‘no art, for God’s sake.” - Chesterton

[Anonymous No.3454060]

>>3454018
>I believe this because some famous people said so
I'm not even an atheist and you're making me cringe.

[Anonymous No.3454064]

>>3454060
do you think chesterton is taking you for a ride?

[Anonymous No.3454066]

>>3454060
>Burckhardt
>famous

[Anonymous No.3454084]

Michangelo included a brain in his most famous work.

He telling you there is no god. You don't get inspiration from god it comes from the brain.

[Anonymous No.3454092]

I'm sure spirituality would elevate artistic endeavors when all they ever painted was church ceilings and angelic Italian landscapes.

Just get more involved with whatever you most commonly paint. If you draw anime girls read more manga and look at hentai. If you draw aliens watch sci-fi movies and read star trek novels.

[Anonymous No.3454095]

>>3454084
Actually that's a uterus, not a brain

[Anonymous No.3454103]

>>3454084
>>3454095
and it's not even about inspiration it's about the creation of man

[Anonymous No.3454111]

>>3453201

It stimulates your imagination. It's only bad when you can't distinguish between imagination and reality.

[Anonymous No.3454113]

>>3454084
I'm pretty sure Michelangelo didn't believe in Cartesian dualism

[Anonymous No.3454116]

>>3454084
brain creates god. brain also creates your subjective reality. what's the problem, atheist?

[Anonymous No.3454131]

>>3454111
no it's only good when you can't (or don't, rather) distinguish. that's what picasso means when he says all children are artists

[Anonymous No.3454142]

>>3453201
did he say that? :o because actually yes i believe in god and christ and making art is making me happier at the same time

[Anonymous No.3454150]

have any atheists even succeeded as artists? like, you're gonna die eventually so why even bother wasting your life on drawings? when you have religion this doesn't seem like such a huge problem to overcome.

[Anonymous No.3454151]

>>3454150
It's more like, you're gonna die eventually, why even bother wasting your life doing anything else but drawing.

[Anonymous No.3454177]

>>3454084
The concept that god and man/science are not one and the same is younger than the steam engine.

[Anonymous No.3454186]

>>3454177
do i need to point out that Michangelo lived and died before the steam engine was invented?

[Anonymous No.3454193]

>>3454186
nope because that was his point

[Anonymous No.3454260]

Bonita hobra

[Anonymous No.3454317]

>>3453201
Not so much faith, but suppression.
Michelangelo was a religious man, and by many accounts a homosexual. Because of his spirituality and his sexuality were at odds he felt guilt. To quill the guilt he would suppress his desires and channel them into his creativity. His sculptures and his paintings and drawings display this very clearly.

[Anonymous No.3454422]

>>3453690
>DO NOT MEDITATE
Meditation good for you
tf are talking about m8

[Anonymous No.3454490]

>>3454422
so is drinking your own urine but it's not how civilized people go about

[Anonymous No.3454495]

>>3454317
so if he lived now a days he would do a patreon and draw gay porn?

[Anonymous No.3454618]

>>3454490
You must be a retarded christfag to associate drinking piss with meditation

[Anonymous No.3454658]

>>3454150
>you need religion to have morals/purpose
be thankful you're not in /lit/ or you'd be crucified, pun intended.

[Anonymous No.3454725]

>>3453265
this was probably back in 2010.

[Anonymous No.3454950]

>>3454618
are you dense? i didn't.

[Anonymous No.3455993]

>>3453220
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>>3453265
>>3454018

Can you cum tribute this for me?