Exploring Contemporary Presentations of Jesus in Music, Art, and Culture
This presentation delves into the contemporary representations of Jesus in music, art, and society, focusing on the portrayal in the song "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. The analysis includes how images of Jesus have evolved, the impact of religion on individuals and society, and the changing attitudes towards faith in modern times.
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Presentations of Jesus in Contemporary Music. Jesus and his message in Losing My Religion . Jesus in Contemporary Art. How has our images of Jesus changed?
LOSING MY RELIGION REM http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/images/film/losing-my-religion/w448/losing-my-religion.jpg?1304108187 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwtdhWltSIg
In the video: Jesus is portrayed as an old man who falls out of a tree and is humiliated by a Pilate figure. Jesus is portrayed as weak, exhausted and worn out.
What do the lyrics say about Religion? It is relevant to today because it reaches out to young people/ Young people do suffer with Religion. Title of the song is a challenge and inspirational. It acknowledges the challenges we go through in life.
Religion is an accessory that can be lost and found. It lets us see a search for meaning. It suggests that they are second guessing their religion. Spotlight - the more a person develops and finds themselves, the more they are losing their religion. Possibly, drifting away from their religious ideas as they realise that their parents conditioned them to be religious . To lose religion, is to lose control or lose your mind. It is to lose touch with the ideas, principles and beliefs upon which all others seem to rest.
The concept of religion and its effect on society. They are losing their religion due to the surrounding world. Are people professing their faith like they did in the past? Has the world lost a sense of religion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=01XRYSx nAdM Images of Jesus throughout the years
Jesus of the People by Janet McKenzie
This image challenges the notion of Jesus, and ultimately of God, as being the preserve of any one ethnic group or indeed gender. In a multicultural and multi-faith society, it suggests that Jesus came to save us all and should be accessible to all creeds and cultures. She wants to remind us that we are all created in God s likeness.
She uses an African American woman, possibly to suggest an understanding of Jesus as someone who stands with those who are marginalised. It brings a new cultural perspective to Jesus, as it strays from the norm toward a multicultural depiction that many more people can connect to. It shows that Jesus could have been any colour, sex or culture.
Sister Wendy This is a haunting image of a peasant Jesus dark, thick-lipped, looking out on us with ineffable dignity, with sadness but with confidence. Over His white robe He draws the darkness of our lack of love, holding it to Himself, prepared to transform all sorrows if we will let Him
DA VINCIS: THE LAST SUPPER
Answer these questions: What do we see from the Apostles? What is Christ reaching towards? Who is grasping the bag of silver? How does Leonardo Da Vinci change his Last Supper from earlier images? How do they describe Jesus?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iV6_wTr kd70
It draws the viewer into the table-fellowship, displaying the inclusive nature of the Kingdom of God as preached by Jesus. It covers the end wall of a dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan, Italy.
Leonardo chose to capture the moment in which Jesus announces to the apostles that he knows one of them will betray him. The apostles are captured in their sense of astonishment immediately after this announcement. Leonardo's depiction of Christ as the focal point in perspective and in the form of a triangle, symbolic of the Trinity, shows that he is calm.
The dominant position of Christ is emphasized by the empty space around him. The background doorway frames his figure against the view of the countryside as his hands point silently to the bread and wine. His glance follows this direction and places emphasis on the orderly arrangement of the objects on the table before him.
To the left and right of him objects immediately fall into disarray. Thus Leonardo provides the space before the Lord as a symbol of the sacred action Jesus is ready to accomplish - offering himself as a sacrifice in the form of bread and wine. Leonardo kept Judas within the company of his fellow Apostles within his depiction.
Leonardo portrays Judas as recoiling from Jesus. He is the only figure whose face is lost in the shadow, a subtle indication that he is lost from the light of Christ. He is also the only individual other than Christ to not be portrayed in the wave of emotion that seems to increase from left to right in the painting in an attempt to symbolize his guilt.
Presentations of Jesus in Contemporary Music. Jesus and his message in Losing My Religion . Jesus in Contemporary Art. How has our images of Jesus changed?
