In a recent discussion with Marcella Walker, I came to a tentative conclusion that art - in its various forms - is the response of the created order to the fall. In short, we are artists because we suffer the pangs of separation. We know that the world is not as it should, and so we respond with art. (We also respond with humor, but that is a different post.) Our music, poetry, literature, painting, sculpture, cinema, et cetera is at is most foundational level our attempt to deal with the brokenness of the world around us, and reclaim, however tenuously, a connection with what the world could be.
I would like to hear the thoughts of you, my loyal visitors and readers.
~Harry
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Cool thought, Harry. I agree that art can be used to communicate a better alternative to what has resulted from the fall. It creates hope.
Also, it can be a means to connect with God and a means of worship. We are mini-creators, and who knows, perhaps part of being made in the image of God means that, like God, we create things. We tinker, we invent, we express. And so, though in some ways I would agree that art is a response to the fall, I would also say that I think art would exist whether there had ever been a fall or not.
I agree with Mitch. If our creative geniuses reflect the image of God in us, how can that be in response to the fall? Maybe one way we do art is an expression of our fallenness but not in total. Interesting thought though.
~JK
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