MOA

Here's the link to the artwork exhibited in Types and Shadows at the BYU Museum of Art. It's a fabulous exhibit of religious artwork.

For our New Testament class, we made a field trip to the MOA to see the new Types and Shadows: Intimations of Divinity exhibit. It was enlightening! All of the pieces carried deep meaning, shadows of sometimes clear, sometimes elusive truths and figures.

I'll try to include some of my favorite selections on this post so you can get a glimpse of the variety of visual effects

employed in these beautiful pieces of artwork.

The first one is done by Young, called "Man of Sorrows". We noted the stark contrast between his clearly clean, unbroken body and physical constitution, while showing in his face a deeply penetrating grief. Christ bore our sins and weakness in his cross, and yet he remains perfect and unstained.

Here on the right is Poynter's "The Prodigal's Return". It shows the remorse in a lost son after wasting his father's years and fortune, begging for forgiveness, while also showing clearly how hurriedly a very loving father embraces and supports that son without reserve. There is no grudge, no hate, no coldness from God if we are sincere in our repentance.

This last one is Job, poor Job, who lost everything, but was faithful and humble all the way through, though his friends also went against him through his hardest trials. This view of his sorrows perfectly matches aspects of Christ's suffering, where his friends also did not stand by him.

This visit was enlightening, refreshing, and inspiring. I love art in all its forms, and I pray that we can all enjoy it more and more.