zeezrom wrote:But then they cover the shoulders of female angels. WTF?
This is what holds TBMs back from being great artists. There are truly great TBM artists, but they are constained by what is considered "appropriate" and they are taught to believe their talents must be used to build up the kingdom of god. When Cleanflix tried to chop up films to meet LDS standards, that is what an LDS artist instinctively does to their own art.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
zeezrom wrote:But then they cover the shoulders of female angels. WTF?
This is what holds TBMs back from being great artists. There are truly great TBM artists, but they are constained by what is considered "appropriate" and they are taught to believe their talents must be used to build up the kingdom of god. When Cleanflix tried to chop up films to meet LDS standards, that is what an LDS artist instinctively does to their own art.
Fiannan wrote:I think this is true to a large extent.
Yes. Imagine a faithful LDS fiction writer putting phrases like "oh my heck!" in the mouths of his characters. You can't be a faithful Mormon and produce good art.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
I mean he is saying we need to encourage artistic expression in our ranks and even says that a statue of a naked David is inspiring. Have times changed?
I mean he is saying we need to encourage artistic expression in our ranks and even says that a statue of a naked David is inspiring. Have times changed?
David is one mighty fine looking man.
Paul O
"I WAS IN THE POOL!!!"
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
zeezrom wrote:It's interesting that he mentions a male nude sculpture. Does this imply that female nude art is also okay? It's also interesting that he picked Michelangelo of all the artists. This guy mastered the male form. Some of his female nudes look like men with breasts glued on:
I think it's an open secret that Brother Kimball was gay.
I always kind of thought that he was asexual
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. - The Dude
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk - Tom Waits
I mean he is saying we need to encourage artistic expression in our ranks and even says that a statue of a naked David is inspiring. Have times changed?
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
