The work of great artists like Michael Angelo and the many other works of human achievement inpired by religion like building and architecture just don't seem to happen anymore. Why is this? Do you think it might be because accumulated human knowledge reached a point some time ago, that allowed us to rebel against the fear of God that once held us all in thrall?
2006-11-14 09:43:15 · 35 answers · asked by Desiree J 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Much of the religious art you see from the Renaissance was inspired by only one thing... MONEY. Granted there were several artists of the day that did religious art just for the sake of making religious art but many of them simply did it to finance their other projects and feed themselves. Since the church at that time held the majority of the wealth and was the largest patron of the arts you would expect many of the greatest works to be of a religious nature.
2006-11-14 09:50:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could be one of two things: the fact that many Christians today are only Christians on Sunday, which is the answer I would give more readily, but the second would be that Christianity isn't running the government. The artists back then were, perhaps, only doing religious works because religious people were the biggest buyers or would give the most funding. Power and money was in the hands of religious governments then, so artists, who were perhaps not even devout at heart, did religious works simply because they were in demand. So to those who think commercial marketing is a modern capitalistic concept, I think they may be wrong.
2006-11-14 09:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was never enthralled by these things. I think it's because the catholic church finally lost the stranglehold on the written word. Because people can read it themselves, they realized the idolatry entrenched in that religion.
People also realized that a mountain or a tree or a lion were far more beautiful and aweinspiring than some manmade construction. Christians started focusing on what they SUPPOSED to be doing - teaching people the truth - and stopped making temples built on sand.
People are kept in thrall by religion, not God. He gives us free will.
2006-11-14 09:56:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Angelo was paid to paint. Money inspired him, not the religion. If someone was willing to put up a lot of money, I am sure there are plenty of artists who are up to the challenge.
The knowledge is one aspect. God and Bible has taught us how to live and what rules to follow. Government has taken over that role now, however a bit more earthly.
2006-11-14 09:53:47 · answer #4 · answered by oskeewow13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Never mind religion, are there any Michael Angelos or Handels anywhere creating music and art today, with any inspiration. Or have we reached the point where we have so much that greatness gets swallowed up by mediocrity.
2006-11-14 10:05:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No , we talk a lot of living according to God, but very few actually want to pay the price for that choice and persevere. This creates an image in which what God says just doest seems really or according to the reality we live in.Jesus said it best : We live in the world but not belong to it. Meaning there is a life style that is waiting to be discovered, and it is not a copy cat of the what we see around us ( work ,so i can eat , to be able to work .....) but rather a different perspective of life, his. Our challenge is bring this richness of God into the world.
2006-11-14 09:54:56 · answer #6 · answered by Eddie R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mythological element of religion is no longer needed. We have better, proven (though still incomplete) explanations for how the universe came to be, why the sun rises and sets, and what causes the tides to rise and fall. As human knowledge increases, we naturally come to realize how false or outmoded are many of the ideas in ancient scripture.
But that doesn't mean that we cannot still be inspired by the wonders of nature, the many remaining mysteries of the universe, and the words and deeds of our fellow human beings.
2006-11-14 09:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
1) Too many religious "holy" people caught as liars and monsters.
2) Humanity is changing to adapt to a new life opening up with our expanding understanding of reality and spirituality. We are at a crossroads to reconcile our past history with our new outlook on life and what it means. While we flounder and hop around trying to "molt" into a new social paradigm we experience confusion, anger, resentment and a lack of faith.
Kinda like how a teenager thinks everything is kinda lame and waste of time until they can come to grips with being an adult
2006-11-14 09:57:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The funding to commission the best artists is no longer with the church but with museums and government sponsered agencies. You should notice however, the quality of art has dropped as secularism has advanced. And generally the worse art (according to critics) has been made through atheistic communism like Maoist art schools and Russian realism.
2006-11-14 09:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by Dick Dawkins 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it is seeing that all the so-called representatives of these religions are nothing but scam artists, charlatans, bloodthirsty killers, rapists, child molesters and more that has opened our eyes to organized religion.
Eventually people will begin to READ their religious texts and see that they all say that religion is a personal thing, not to be organized, not to be boasted about or trying to "convert" people because those are acts of extreme violence against people.
In the meantime, I continue to be inspired and incorporate it into my stories with prophecies, sayings and visions that are totally unique.
2006-11-14 09:48:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋