https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/tgc-podcast/christian-art-often-bad/
Brett McCracken, Ryan Lister, and Thomas Terry sat down to discuss why Christian art—particularly Protestant art—is so often bad. They pose some plausible hypotheses—such as an overly utilitarian view of art driven by an urgency to get the Christian message out, or a tendency for Christians to put more emphasis on placing boundaries than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyX-u0IEOJs
Ryan Lister, Brett McCracken, and Thomas Terry explain how the idolatry of efficiency and utilitarianism has squashed artistic creativity in the church and t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfl-YCgm798
The Thriving Christian Artist | Why Christian Art Is So Bad: 5 Ways to Make it Better 🎨Ever wondered, why is Christian art often perceived as subpar? Or wh

https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/problem-christian-art/
First of all, the phrase "good Christian art" is redundant. Good Christian art is simply good art—art that explores and expresses our deepest and truest humanity, art that speaks to us, prods us, inspires us. This is not to demean art that is created with deliberate theological themes or purposes. On the contrary, theological reflection

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/christian-art.html
Christian art can simply be art made by Christians. If you tell a good story with a message in mind, the message can and will flow out organically and naturally. There is no "come to Jesus" message in The Lord of the Rings, but it has pointed many believers back to Christ in its themes, characters, and more.

https://www.vox.com/2015/2/15/8038283/christian-movies-bad-old-fashioned-fifty-shades
The answer, then, might not be in striving to convey the message most full of surface-level goodness but, rather, in pushing for artistic greatness. Then, once form and content emerge in harmony

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-christian-art-so-bad-and-5-ways-to-make-it-better/id1381529961?i=1000630813200
The Thriving Christian Artist | Why Christian Art Is So Bad: 5 Ways to Make it Better 🎨 Ever wondered, why is Christian art often perceived as subpar? Or why some prophetic art seems heartfelt and Spirit-led but just not of high artistic quality? 🤔 These burning questions, thrown out to Matt liv

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-cultures-religions-apah/christianity-apah/v/christian-art-national-gallery
It's an amazingly daring thing to even attempt. But artists working in the Christian tradition have done exactly that for nearly two millennia. Christian paintings form about a third of the collection here at the National Gallery and, as Curator in Art and Religion, my role is to try to understand more about their religious content and context.

https://cfc.sebts.edu/faith-and-culture/is-art-good-or-bad-four-standards-to-help-you-decide/
God made us artfully and wants us to be artful, so the subject matter of the art doesn't matter so much. What matters more is that the art is done from within a Christian worldview, for God's glory and in a way that helps human beings flourish. [1] God made us artfully and wants us to be artful. Francis Schaeffer expands on this theme in

https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/the-decline-and-renewal-of-christian-art.html
Bad music, bad statues and pictures are irreligious, because everything corrupt is irreligious. She further states, Indifference to art is the most serious sign of decay in any institution; nothing bespeaks its old age more eloquently than that art, under its patronage, becomes literal and self-imitating. The Restoration of Culture

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140602-does-modern-art-hate-religion
When contemporary artists tackle Christian subjects today, they often do so in an iconoclastic, ironic, disrespectful or subversive fashion. Think of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's

https://www.cccc.org/news_blogs/john/2016/12/05/the-church-and-the-arts/
Art can therefore be a subtle outreach to our culture. A lot of today's art is created from a pessimistic view of the world and represents values at odds with Christian values. Christian art could have a more positive view based on different values, celebrating the positive world that God created and is re-creating through Jesus Christ.

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/why-christians-seem-suspicious-of-the-arts.html
The Mind of the Maker helps artists understand their work by comparing art to the Trinity. An artwork involves its starting point (Idea), the making of it (Activity), and responses to it (Power). Like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, these three elements are each the artwork, yet distinct. Through this analogy, Sayers helps artists see how to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_art
Christian art is sacred art which uses subjects, themes, and imagery from Christianity.Most Christian groups use or have used art to some extent, including early Christian art and architecture and Christian media.. Images of Jesus and narrative scenes from the Life of Christ are the most common subjects, and scenes from the Old Testament play a part in the art of most denominations.

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/christian-iconography.html
Scholars now consider the Christian art found in the catacombs to be the origin of iconography. The images were simple and sometimes subtle to prevent Roman suspicion. For example, they often used symbols (such as anchors or the Chi-Rho) to represent Christ or biblical concepts. After the legalization of Christianity, iconography found its

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/Art-and-iconography
Christianity - Art, Iconography, Religion: Christian art constitutes an essential element of the religion. Until the 17th century the history of Western art was largely identical with the history of Western ecclesiastical and religious art. During the early history of the Christian church, however, there was very little Christian art, and the church generally resisted it with all its might.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WwbFPfiMDs
For centuries, Christians were making the best music, writing the best stories and painting the greatest masterpieces. What has happened? Now we are more lik

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-cultures-religions-apah/christianity-apah/v/so-near-and-yet-so-far-visions-and-thresholds-the-audacity-of-christian-art-national-gallery
But Christian experiences of God are often described in very visual terms: words like revelation- which literally means 'unveiling', vision, insights, enlightenment. So there is also very exciting, visual material for artists to work with. One particularly fruitful artistic device was the curtain.

https://www.logos.com/grow/why-are-christian-movies-so-bad/
And so, returning to the crucial question of why Christian films are so bad, the answer is ultimately pretty simple: because Christian audiences have no real desire for them to be good. This dynamic is further explored in my documentary Reel Redemption: The Rise of Christian Cinema. In it, I trace the history of Christian engagement with

https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/1320-why-art-should-matter-to-christians/
Why Art Should Matter to Christians. byRELEVANT. September 28, 2011. Imagine a world without poetry, dance, song, comedy, film,architecture, painting, stories, symphonies, theater or sculpture. Such aworld would be bland. Art brings vibrance and beauty to our lives. Creativity is both a fully human and fully divine experience.

https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/why-are-christian-movies-so-bad/
byRELEVANT. October 26, 2010. Christian culture is often the enemy of quality. Independent Christian film, in particular, has a history of being seriously and deeply flawed, routinely dismissed by secular critics and audiences as intellectually vacant and disconnected from reality. The term Christian film has become synonymous with substandard

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/bad-christian-art-11651996.html
Apparently this is a bad movie, though the only question when such movies hit the screen is not whether they are bad, but whether they are better than Left Behind, or better than Facing the Giants, or better than whatever else has been served up to good Christian people who judge art by criteria like message and wholesomeness and theological purity.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/26/tucker_carlson_vs_australian_reporter_.html
So you need to fix the economy and fix the culture and make it so that people who want to have kids can. You don't just go for the quick sugar fix of importing new people. That's my position.

https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/why-arent-christians-funny/
So we err on the side of caution and produce safe humor—something bland, like '101 Jokes 4 Pastors.'. Problem is, safe humor is rarely funny.". Matthew Paul Turner agrees. "The biggest reason is that whenever something humorous is created by church people, it gets beaten or edited to death by the gatekeepers," he says.

https://www.malaymail.com/news/singapore/2024/07/01/art-meant-for-everyone-singapores-mural-artists-muse-on-why-they-brave-criticism-clients-whims-and-bad-weather-for-their-work/142326
From "whitewashing" to bad weather, mural artists in Singapore often have to put up with challenges so that their work can see the light of day Public murals are in the spotlight after the Urban Redevelopment Authority ordered an artist to remove an image of a cigarette from a mural The artwork