A picture a day

Does religion affect art?

Sunday the 4^th of October was the feast day for church I attend every week, Church of St Francis of Assisi. The feast day in Catholic or Christian church is a big day where we give thanks and praise our patron saint. Even in the convent school, CHIJ Saint Theresa’s convent that I was from, we celebrated patron’s day.

outside the church,
the carnival

The church I go to is air conditioned and it’s usually very cold, but on Sunday there were too much body heat produced. After mass, there was a carnival waiting outside. There were performances, food stalls and games. Well, performance and games were alright but the food was amazing. When we were eating our meals, I was talking to my older sister about school, my younger sister suddenly said I should draw a picture of Jesus. The first thing that crossed my mind was whether religion affects art?

I think religion can affect a person’s point of view in art, I think it depends on how faithful or mature one is. I meant I am a person who like skulls, the color black and other mythological figures like the Greek and Egyptian gods, but that doesn’t affect my view on my religion. The only way I think my religion affects me is that every time I draw something out of my imagination I want it to have a message. For example, how in Hinduism one sculpture can tell thing 3 different amazing story or how Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel; not only to decorate the chapel but to also allow people to reflect on the scenes he had paint. I think when a person has both interest in their religion and art it can make life more interesting. In my point of view, when I found out there was more than one religion I wanted to know more about other religions and experience the colours they have in their beliefs and tales.

When people can get inspired by many different thing the art industries becomes like a universe. Each inspiration, such as religion, race, culture or anything that can classified, becomes a Milky Way Galaxy; and in each Milky Way galaxy, the different plants or stars are like different ideas.