Artist between the Paradise on Earth and the Kingdom of Heaven

Abstract

The article raises the question of why the subjects related to the pristine paradis and to the coming Kingdom of Heaven are usually not convincingly addressed in the world art, especially in the visual one. The author finds the cause in the absence of the artist’s inner experience to be rendered in her/his art images. The artist deals with a different task. Whatever is portrayed, the artist overcomes, more or less, the density of the “leather clothes” of sin and creates a “transparent” form, which does not hide but shows the essence, the soul of things. Therefore, a true work of art makes the Creator’s presence tangible in all His creation.

Keywords

• image of paradise in art
• artist's inner experience
• corner of paradise
• paradise on earth
• "leather clothes"
• thin physicality
• "form transparency"
• icon and portrait