Art as a vehicle for spiritual expression is nothing new. Usually, however, art has been tethered to a religious dogma & has ended up churning out religious propaganda rather than being a personal statement of spiritual feeling. Being an Atheist, I do not subscribe to the theory of "spirit" being a distinct component of our existence that continues after death. Instead, I view the "spritual" as the apex of human emotion; thus spirit is often best expressed in the most trying of times.
Witness Anna Akhmatova: the Russian Acmeist poet had always written poetry infused with spiritual themes("Chiotki"--The Prayer Beads--"Belaya Straya"--The White Flock), but it was the incarceration of her son which produced the impulse in her for her most moving, "spiritual" poetry. I also Think of Kathe Kollwitz, famous for her depictions of mothers---and death("Death As An Old Friend"). Kollwitz lost her son in the first World War.
What works do you find spiritual? No Thomas Kinkade answers!
2007-06-27 04:11:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My seven year old's family portraits.
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2007-06-27 04:18:57 · answer #1 · answered by Me 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Sistine Chapel-Michaelangelo The Pieta-Michaelangelo
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The Last Supper-Leonardo Da Vinci Christ of Saint John of the Cross-Salvador Dali
I think any work that accurately captures the internal landscape of a human has the potential to be spiritual. Salvador Dali was good at this, TS Eliot, Tom Robbins, Picasso.
Thomas Kinkade is deeply yucky. ;0)
2007-06-27 04:19:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When I saw this question the first thing that popped into my head was the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His mastery of stone is incredible. One of my favorites, Apollo and Daphne [a pagan myth :o) ] captures a split second in time with such clarity as to evoke a spiritual sense. Here's a link to it:
http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm
The photo doesn't do it justice, to really understand what I mean you'd need to go to Rome and see it.
2007-06-27 06:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by Murazor 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many.. I do like the art of Charles Burchfield, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keefe, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, and Martin Johnson Heade.
2007-06-27 04:24:08 · answer #5 · answered by Kallan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I enjoy visual art and music the most. Many art works by Maxfield Parrish are very spiritual. The Sistine Chapel is very spiritual. Just about all music with no lyrics are spiritual too!
2007-06-27 04:19:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have seen incredibly spiritual art in almost every medium possible.
Personally, I really like one of the newer mediums: graphic novels. There is a combination of drawn art with story that allows for an intensification of both. It is, also, very accessible.
2007-06-27 04:40:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me, visual art that expresses subconscious imagery (especially surrealism) sometimes evokes an emotional response I might describe as spiritual. So do many of Chuck Close's portraits.
2007-06-27 04:20:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Willy really captured the wild, magical, untamed spirit of the forest in this play. I think it's a wonderful expression of the mystery and beauty hidden in the natural world.
2007-06-27 04:17:40 · answer #9 · answered by Khalin Ironcrow 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
all of them....your spirit is the reason for your existence your body is simply a vehicle of expression so all that you do is a mirror image of what is going on inside of you....each individual will be invoked by different art as each of us has a different understanding of life itself[ i am not talking through the guise of religion just simple pure spirituality of self]
2007-06-27 04:22:06 · answer #10 · answered by master A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
2007-06-27 04:16:45 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋