In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
I chose paintings by Mark Lawrence that effective use elements of space to each evokes powerful emotional responses. Lawrence’s draws his inspiration from passages of the Bible and through his artwork he makes powerful spiritual implications. His unique approach in creating modern art takes concrete words from Scripture and translates them into abstract representations of the spiritual concepts: hope, love and faith.
This piece titled “He Bore Them and Carried Them. Isaiah 63:9” was inspired by the angel that delivered the Israelites from Egypt. The prophet Isaiah reflects the immense suffering endured by the Israelites as they were enslaved by the Egyptians an God’s compassion on His people. Lawrence takes this specific situation and creates a piece of art that is universal to the human experience. The winding, crooked and staggering lines travel in a linear fashion across the horizontal dimension of the canvas symbolizes the suffering and pain that all humans endure in this lifetime. On the vertical plane these jagged lines seem to travel from the bottom left to the bottom right evoking humankind persist and survives that amidst the oppression and evil by still being bound to this earth. However, the artist adds the bright diagonal dimension in which fragmented pieces are seem to float from the deep left forward to the high left backward. The gradual change of shading through the darkening of the colors from the bottom to the top of the canvas contribute to the three dimensionality of the space. The artist uses the diagonal dimension to represents the possibility to be lifted from the suffering of this world through the faith in God.
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