From finding t shirts which make use of religious images, I have decided to delve deeper into religious artwork and take this book out of the library to investigate.
The British museum's book of Christian Art, written by Rowena Loverance, has some fascinating and beautiful images of art work which relates to Christianity.
This image found in the British museum's book, portrays Jesus on the cross, being crucified and persecuted with other people.
The tone of the image is rather dismal, making use of sandy tones with blue tints. I feel this piece would contrast very well on black, and a lot of attention would be drawn to the detail of this water colour painting.
This piece named 'The atomic apocalypse, made using the medium of Papier-mâché, reflects the day of the dead in a satirical way.
An artist named José Guadalupe Posada first mocked skeletons by introducing each to the concept of contemporary dressing.
This piece uses dark shades of blue and black, which set a mise-en-scene mood where the leader skeleton stood atop of the earth looks down on the rest of the civilians.
This Illustration known as the 'seven deadly sins', Gluttony, created by Peter Bruegel in Antwerp 1558.
If examined closely, the illustration represents gluttony, the characters in the artwork are eating, many mouths are being filled, and a lot of food is being stolen and consumed.
There are many faces in this piece of work, many of them scary and baffling, the detail gone into this work using very fine pens is exceptional.
This oil painting ia entitled 'The decent of the holy spirit' by Francesco de Mura, an Italian and was created in the mid 18th century.
The creation makes use of beautiful soft bright colours, shades of yellow and pastel tones created from oil paint. It has a beautiful. joyous, uplifting tone to it, with the center piece of the painting being a dove, which represents peace.
This print known as 'Empty hand', a colour woodblock print, was created by a Japanese artist in 1947.
The piece is described as a "transitional piece with the subdued richness of colour", has a very dark and dull tone to it, the hand conveys a lot of the message where as the colours are purely to full up the background's negative space.
