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Becoming a better artist means knowing how to challenge yourself, and maintaining a positive attitude even when nothing seems to be working out the way you want it to.
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I was in Vatican City last summer, and among many other things I saw this painting [link] , which is a series of scenes from the Last Judgement.
As I was looking at it, I suddenly saw myself submerged by a singular feeling of alienness: what would one feel, when looking at this painting, if they had absolutely no religious education whatsoever? How would they relate to it? How would they interpret the symbolism? Would they understand the story? Would they just be completely lost? This deviation is my attempt at evoking a similar feeling. --- J'étais au Vatican l'été dernier, et parmi d'autres choses, j'ai vu cette oeuvre [link] , qui est une série de scènes du Jugement dernier. En regardant ce tableau, je me suis soudain senti submergé par un singulier sentiment d'étrangeté: que ressentirait, en voyant cette image, quelqu'un qui n'aurait absolument aucune éducation religieuse? Comment l'accueillerait-il? Comment en interpreterait-il le symbolisme? Comprendrait-il l'histoire? Ou serait-il totalement perdu? Cette déviation est ma tentative de susciter un sentiment similaire. Daily DeviationGiven 2008-01-10Strange Religion by *The-Mirrorball-Man is detailed and amazing. You need to have a closer look. Fantastic depictions in an awesome style with great colours. (Suggested by =XenonXylophone and Featured by `misskittyoooo) |
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i have little knowledge of most religions; this is just the sort of strange jumble i come up with in my head when i hear/see/read anything relating to religion...
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You asked: Would they just be completely lost? Well I can only speak for myself, and I am completely lost when I look at most kinds of religious art (even the Christian ones). I attribute this to a completely different mindset of the artists and the society/culture at the time when it was made. I simply share no cultural background with them. There's lots of things they took for granted at the time, which I'd have to look up to make any kind of sense out of it (this includes using symbols which don't hold any meaning for me).
So, the funny thing is, your image makes more sense to me, than a lot of religious art I've seen
I get the feeling I could "decipher" your image, at least get the "gist" of what you were thinking while drawing it^^. (It actually reminds me of the Bayeux tapestry^^)
But, be all of that as it may...
This work must be one of my favourite works on dA, ever!
It's one I'll be delighted to return to every now and then, to have a new and fresh look, to discover new details, to imagine new storylines...
Brilliant work, Julien!
You are a true artist. I really think this piece should be studied in college art and religion classes...I might send this to one of my professors who taught my religious courses to see what he thinks, if you don't mind.
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You should go back to the vatican with a print of this and surrepticiously install it amongst the other works, Banksy stylee. See how long before they notice it and if, when they do, they believe it's real and dramatically adjust their dogma to include the lightening folk and the ants and the hornheads and the skellingtons and the dancey torso man.
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