Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Visual Art & Photography”
“You can walk on water if you are painting it.” Forefront leaders Nate Mancini and Rich Christman recently had the opportunity to speak with renowned artist Makoto Fujimura about the intersection of art and faith. In this far-reaching conversation, they talk about Mako’s routines & practices, his slow process of creation, how artists can bring God’s abundance to a world …
What a read. What a brilliant, dense, and far-reaching study of the relationship between art, artist, and the living Creator. Makoto Fujimura’s Art + Faith: A Theology of Making hits deeply upon so many different roads one can take at the many-pronged intersection of art, work, faith, theology, productivity, humanity, and eternity. In this decided fullness, the book feels almost conclusive, even though it swims in a topic that is (wonderfully) inexhaustible…
Medieval art often gets a bad rap. Placed between the recognizable Classical art of the Greeks and Romans and the infamous Renaissance art of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rafael, and Donatello, the artworks of the “Middle” Ages are often simply glossed over as two-dimensional and religious.The art of the Middle Ages is hard to appreciate because it lacks the monumental, realistic, and …
In the summer of 2015 during a time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two friends and I came upon a temporary exhibition in one of the lower areas of the museum. In the center of the space there was a soft lit, large scale abstract painting. It was tawny oil paint and gold leaf on canvas – glinting a …
