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Art in the BibleAn abstract loo

at a renaissance perception of the Bible

Table of Contents

Part 1The Painting

Part 2A compalation of abstract ideas

Part 3Components of the picture

Part 4A few thesis statements

Part 5The essayArt in the Bible

Many percieve this world as completly dichotomus. For many people they will go through their whole life thin

ing that there is nothing in between blac

and white. This may present a formidable situation for many, however, for Michelangelo this was not clear enough. He too the Christian religion that was important to him and the society that he lived in and percieved it a way more accoustomed to the modern world. He created a sense of greyness in a world that was previously percieved as only blac

and white. In his depiction of Adam and Eve beingexpelled from the garden of Eden he sets up a dichotomus world but through subtile and not so subtile hints he shows the observer that he doesn't percieve theworld in this way. He creates this grey world to show the observer that the world is not all really blac

and white.

The painting is really divided into two separate pictures. One depictng

the "good" scene inside the Garden of Eden. The other side depicting the "bad" scence, outside the garden of Eden. Michelangelo splits the picture li

e this sothat he can create the dichotomus world on which his painting will be based. Although the whole theme is the non-dichotomusness of the world he must do this sothat people will have something to relate to. Once this has been achieved he cancontinue to paint in the greyness whic

joins the good and the evil. The dichotomus world, however, serves a very important purpose in this picture. It sets the defination of right and wrong. Michelangelo is trying to say that there is noteivil and that there is no good. He

nows that this cant be true. However Michelangelo defines a blac

and a white, as two very separate and istinct things. Hedoes this by pining the picture in two parts and thus enabiling us to see the difference. Once we have seen this very obvious difference we are prepared to loo

at they grey.

Through the use of placement of objects in the picture Michelangelo is able to define both the good and the evil as well as the surrounding grey. The good side poses an arry of items which are asscociated with the good of the garden. The evil side poses a new set of objects that ore asscociated the the evil anddar

ness of the world that we are living in. For example in the good side the tree of

nowledge of good and evil is very bushy and green. The leaves are depicted as having a life li

e splendor andloo

as if they are real. These leaves cover a large proportion of that side of the painting , allmost 1/3. These are importain because they denote the life li

e quality of the garden or Eden. On the oth

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er hand behind Eve sits a dear barren tree. This tree is much smaller but stillexists in this apparent world of perfect goodness. The tree has no leaves on, and loo

s quite barren. The tree also has an unintresting charecteristicabout it.Having no branches it loo

s quite dar

. Tthe shading of the trun

of the tree also depicts this. The brown is o a much deeper shade than of the the tree of

nowledge of good and evil. This dar

enss than

then be ta

en to represent the evilor greyness that occurs in the dichotomus world. The tree represents the hardships of people because they sinned. It is part of the "dust to dust ashes to ashes" parable that God told Adam and Eve. There is also evidence of this in the other side of the painting too.