Art in Response to the Need of Representing the Beauty of Sacrum
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Art responds to the need for beauty, handed down to the man by the Creator, to the desire to observe manifestations of the sacred, to the expectation to find the sacred expressed in terms of beauty. The beauty sought by the man is the beauty of God’s creation and the beauty of God’s plan of creation. The human creations of beauty are expressions of the divine facet in the man. Thinkers, philosophers and artists, having experienced a divine emanation, attempted to convey the enormity of the beauty of the sacred by making depictions of the earthly beauty, and through the agency of those depictions they tried to confront the beauty of the sacred with the poor human conjecture. The human artistic production in the service of the sacred is a glimpse of beauty dedicated to God. The artist making beauty within sacred art actually traces God and tries to give to the audience the likeness of God through his works. He presents beauty in physical forms so as to reveal its spiritual aspects. Beauty is one of the ways of the divine revelation, and within the arts it is one of the methods for portraying the sacred. The need of beauty in sacrum and the possibilities to find the console towards the end of human life (f. e. thanks to the pictoral visoin of afterlife) incrreases especially nowadays during the crisiis of the religiuous art.
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Wydawca „Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Arte et Educatione” jest upoważniony do korzystania oraz do rozpowszechniana wszystkich opublikowanych w czasopiśmie materiałów na podstawie umowy licencji niewyłącznej nieograniczonej w czasie - zawartej uprzednio na czas nieoznaczony każdorazowo z autorem/ką konkretnego utworu na określonych w tamtejszej umowie polach eksploatacji.