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Abstract Imagining

In this episode, Michelle and Joost have chosen five abstract works of art to help uncover the essence of difficult concepts in the Bible. And crucially, listeners can enjoy hearing Joost and Michelle try to describe what’s happening in each of them. The artworks and insights in this episode of Bible & Art Reframed can be explored in more detail on the Visual Commentary on Scripture: the internet’s premier place for Bible and Art. It houses over 1000 artworks and insightful commentary from experts around the World. Support Bible & Art Reframed by subscribing, sharing with a friend, and leaving us a review! ________ Links to Artworks Paul Nash, The Division of the Light from the Darkness, Illustration III, in the book Genesis from the Bible (Soho, London: The Nonesuch Press), 1924, Wood engraving on Zanders hand-made laid paper, Image: 113 x 87 mm, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift of John Flather and Jacqueline Roose, 2001.45.1.3, Image courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Mona Hatoum, Impenetrable, 2009, Steel and Nylon monofilament, 300 x 300 x 300 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Purchased with funds contributed by the Collections Council and the International Director's Council, with additional funds from Ann Ames, Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, and Marcio Fainzilber, 2012, 2012.10, © Mona Hatoum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Art Resource, NY Sam Gilliam, April 4, 1969, Acrylic on canvas, 279.4 x 456.6 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum purchase, 1973.115, © Sam Gilliam; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY Clyfford Still, PH-235 (1944-N-No. 1), 1944, Oil on canvas, 268 x 234.9 cm, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver; 1.2011.570, © 2019 City & County of Denver, Courtesy Clyfford Still Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Mark Rothko, Interior view of the Rothko Chapel: Northwest, North triptych, and Northeast paintings, 1965–66, Oil on canvas, Houston, Texas; © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX. Photo by Hickey-Robertson Explore additional artworks on this theme in our Curated Commentaries on Abstract Imagining. _______ Hosts: Dr Michelle Fletcher and Dr Joost Joustra Producer: Megan Jones Theme: Tim Bentley Instagram: @the_VCS TikTok: @thevcs.org YouTube: VisualCommentaryonScripture

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In this episode, Michelle and Joost have chosen five abstract works of art to help uncover the essence of difficult concepts in the Bible.  

And crucially, listeners can enjoy hearing Joost and Michelle try to describe what’s happening in each of them.  

The artworks and insights in this episode of Bible & Art Reframed can be explored in more detail on the Visual Commentary on Scripture: the internet’s premier place for Bible and Art. It houses over 1000 artworks and insightful commentary from experts around the World.   
 
Support Bible & Art Reframed by subscribing, sharing with a friend, and leaving us a review! 
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Links to Artworks 

  1. Paul Nash, The Division of the Light from the Darkness, Illustration III, in the book Genesis from the Bible (Soho, London: The Nonesuch Press), 1924, Wood engraving on Zanders hand-made laid paper, Image: 113 x 87 mm, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, Gift of John Flather and Jacqueline Roose, 2001.45.1.3, Image courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 
     
  2. Mona Hatoum, Impenetrable, 2009, Steel and Nylon monofilament, 300 x 300 x 300 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Purchased with funds contributed by the Collections Council and the International Director's Council, with additional funds from Ann Ames, Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, and Marcio Fainzilber, 2012, 2012.10, © Mona Hatoum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Art Resource, NY 
     
  3. Sam Gilliam, April 4, 1969, Acrylic on canvas, 279.4 x 456.6 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum purchase, 1973.115, © Sam Gilliam; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY 
     
  4. Clyfford Still, PH-235 (1944-N-No. 1), 1944, Oil on canvas, 268 x 234.9 cm, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver; 1.2011.570, © 2019 City & County of Denver, Courtesy Clyfford Still Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 
     
  5. Mark Rothko, Interior view of the Rothko Chapel: Northwest, North triptych, and Northeast paintings, 1965–66, Oil on canvas, Houston, Texas; © Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX. Photo by Hickey-Robertson 

 

Explore additional artworks on this theme in our Curated Commentaries on Abstract Imagining. 

_______ 

Hosts: Dr Michelle Fletcher and Dr Joost Joustra  

Producer: Megan Jones 

Theme: Tim Bentley 

Instagram: @the_VCS 

TikTok: @thevcs.org 

YouTube: VisualCommentaryonScripture 

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