Art In The Bible

Art in the Bible


An abstract look at a renaissance perception of the Bible


 Table of Contents


Part 1 The Painting


Part 2 A compalation of abstract ideas


Part 3 Components of the picture


Part 4 A few thesis statements


Part 5 The essay


Art in the Bible


     Many percieve this world as completly dichotomus. For many people they

will go through their whole life thinking that there is nothing in between black

and white. This may present a formidable situation for many, however, for

Michelangelo this was not clear enough. He took the Christian religion that was

important to him and the society that he lived in and percieved it a way more

accoustomed to the modern world. He created a sense of greyness in a world that

was previously percieved as only black and white. In his depiction of Adam and

Eve being expelled from the garden of Eden he sets up a dichotomus world but

through subtile and not so subtile hints he shows the observer that he doesn't

percieve the world in this way. He creates this grey world to show the observer

that  the world is not all really black and white.


     The painting is really divided into two separate pictures. One depictng

the “good” scene inside the Garden of Eden. The other side depicting the “bad”

scence, outside the garden of Eden. Michelangelo splits the picture like this so

that he can create the dichotomus world on which his painting will be based.

Although the whole theme is the non-dichotomusness of the world he must do this

so that people will have something to relate to. Once this has been achieved he

can continue to paint in the greyness whick joins the good and the evil. The

dichotomus world, however, serves a very important purpose in this picture. It

sets the defination of right and wrong. Michelangelo is tryinThis is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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