“Sacred art is a creative ideal or a process that pulls in the use of divinity in inspiration.”
Lenten display captures pathos of the Passion at Utah Catholic church
Therapists: Art can help people share feelings they can’t put into words
Art therapy is especially effective in working with patients who have been so traumatized that they don’t have the words to express their concerns.
Christmas reflection: Gerrit Van Honthorst’s ‘Adoration of the Child’
The Christ Child is the source of light in the painting. The edges of the scene are nearly in darkness reminiscent of John’s Gospel: “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
British Benedictine, 82, creates mural to capture order’s charisms
When Mother Joanna Jamieson went back to art school after more than 60 years in a Benedictine convent, she was likened by one British national newspaper to an “intergalactic time traveler” who hadn’t heard a record by the Beatles or seen a James Bond film.
Syriac Christian artist calls paintings of war ‘a cry for help’
The artist Farid Georges, a Syriac Christian from Homs, Syria, has depicted the six-year war in his native country in about two dozen paintings which are on exhibit called “Portraits of Faith: Syria’s Christians Search for Peace.”