1

Banksy, “Banksy Does New York”

Banksy, “Best of Banksy Street Art” Joell Ortiz, “Music Saved My Life”

Jeremy Begbie, “Art & Trauma Healing”

2

Interaction: Praying the Papers, God @ Work + Reading Review

What Is Art, Anyway?

Gallery Immersion (on campus)

OR for online students:Experiencing the Arts (option 1)

“Tree of Life” Immersion/Analysis (option 2)Unpack Embody Pray

(creational intent + cultural idolatry + healing action)

…

• Describe your vocation

• Where do you see creational intent?

• How has cultural idolatrywarped this vocation?

• What healing actioncan you take as your Kingdom mission?

Question

Challenge

Implication

Application

Living @ the Cross-Roads + God @ Work

Wolterstorff “Art & Aesthetics”

Mangalwadi “From Bach to Cobain”

Leunig “Spirituality, Art & Innocence”

3

“What is painting? Do you sense how all the parts of a good picture are involved with each other, not just placed side by side?

Art is a creation for the eye and can only be hinted at by words.”

Class Activity 12.4 (p7)

#1. What are ‘the arts’?

#2. What ‘functions’ do the arts play?

#3. What ‘elements’ make up the arts?

Class Activity 12.4 (p7)

• Criteria for a ‘work of art’?

• Intrinsic and Instrumental/Extrinsic Goods?

• Creational Intent cross culturally and the justification of art?

Susan Chapman (Actress & Arts Educator)

4

Deb Mostert (Painter/Sculptor; password ‘Creative’) James Alley (Graphic/Visual Artist)

Class Activity 12.4 (p7)

• ‘Christian’ as an adjective?

• Baptised Imagination?

• Art vs. Propaganda?

• Sex, Violence and the Fall?

• Goals & Advice for Christian artists?

… Exhibited (§3.2 p9-10) … 2pm for 2:40pm

… Experienced (§4 p11ff)

Online Activity 12.6 (pp12-16)

• Emotions, feelings & sensations

• Best adjectives to describe

• Big Story and gospel resonance

• Hearing God’s voice through the exhibit

• Praying into it and for these artists

5

… Immersive (§5 p17ff)

“Tree of Life Trailer”

Online Activity 12.7 (pp20-23)

What images & allusions speak of:

• Creational Intent (Creation)

• Cultural Idolatry (Fall)

• Healing Action (Redemption)

• What lessons do you learn about being a Christian artist from Malick’s example?

Caravaggio, Thomas

6

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Course Review (Under Module 13)

Pre-Reading + Moodle Forum

Qn | Challenge | Implication | Application

Praying the Papers

God @ Work