Is Thomas Kincade's work “religious” or “evangelical” art? Why?
From 2006 to 2012 Kemper Crabbe penned thoughtful articles on “Why Evangelicals Make Bad Art” and came up with enough ideas and examples for 30 columns. America is stuffed with evangelicals, everywhere it seems but the arts. Defining “evangelical” more by theology than denomination, Crabbe asserts they account for as much as one-quarter of our population. With numbers like that, we should expect more than mediocrity. Evangelicals tend to disallow any portrayal of darkness, sin or evil in visual art but tolerate it in music and literature, I’ve observed. This is rarely if ever discussed in the church for some reason – as if it’s a foregone conclusion Music is an exception to the stale backwater of visual art in the church, possibly because it’s been so more vigorously embraced. [link]
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