Art In The Bible

Title	Art In The Bible
# of Words	616
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.46

Art in the Bible

Art in the Bible

An abstract look at a renaissance perception of the Bible

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Painting

Part 2 A compalation of abstract ideas

Part 3 Components of the picture

Part 4 A few thesis statements

Part 5 The essay

Art in the Bible

     Many percieve this world as completly dichotomus. For many people they
will go through their whole life thinking that there is nothing in between black
and white. This may present a formidable situation for many, however, for
Michelangelo this was not clear enough. He took 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 black and white. In his depiction of Adam and
Eve being expelled 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 the world in this way. He creates this grey world to show the observer
that  the world is not all really black 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 like this so
that 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
so that people will have something to relate to. Once this has been achieved he
can continue to paint in the greyness whick 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 not...

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