Often those facts come at us and we do the interpreting. I think that, in the arts, there is the cry to try to understand who we are. Artists try to paint it. In one particular age, let s talk about High Renaissance, they painted it in terms of the idealism of a lost Greek culture. In our day and age, it becomes a lot more abstract.
Artists argue with color, with form or without form.
The art form in the chapel here at Beeson is kind of post-Renaissance, but, in a way, probably not like painters paint today. And I think I m always kind of looking for that in art now. It was different. It likes representation. The Sunday School Jesus does better on the walls of the evangelical church than someone who has a new representation of Christ somehow.