Nikolae Ge's The Crucifixion (1894) was given by his son to the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris in 1903, and is now in the Musée d'Orsay . It's provocative pose and gruesome realism, holds nothing back about the suffering endured by our Savior. Creatively may we strive to create works as compelling as this, and theologically, may we never sugar coat the price paid for our redemption.

https://www.christopherslatoff.com/illustrated-man-/-fr-electrico A thought: God the Father as the Illustrated Man, who carries his weary Son home after his work on the cross is done.

I began to appreciate art more when I would travel to Chicago annually for a Pastors Conference and would visit the Art Institute of Chicago . One work that always stayed with me was Monk by Katarina Fritsch shown here. This image can only be fully appreciated in person in that it is a 3D life size sculpture. When I viewed it, it was in a room all to itself and it seemed to become a void of negative space. It created for me both a sense of reverence for the solemn mood that it created,...