Mr.Cat Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 [center][img]http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs22/f/2007/357/a/4/___Madonna_and_Child____by_ninebreaker.jpg[/img] [b]Madonna and Child[/b] by by ~[url="http://ninebreaker.deviantart.com/#/d17c93t"]ninebreaker[/url][/center] [quote]This is a Christmas card that I was contracted to do for both ColdWater Media and mPower Media. It was a joint effort between me for pencils and artist Brittany Richardson for colors. Aging the card, and doing the actual layout of the card was done by Brian Gage Design. The point of the card was to create an image of Mary and Jesus while adding an Irish taste in the vein of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells"]Book of Kells[/url]. I've always liked traditional Christian art, so I wanted to try to do an "old meets new" kind of thing. The card was supposed to have gold leafing with the halos of Jesus and Mary, but that didn't happen, much to my dismay. I still have some cards left if you'd like a belated Christmas gift, so let me know! (for free, yeah?) ^_^ Either way, I hope you enjoy the picture and have a very merry and blessed Christmas!![/quote]I think I can like this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddington Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I think I better get the heck out of this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I really like it; I would like to design a car as such but I draw too cartoon-ish. I love how the robe is done and Mary's hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 i like it and i dont like it at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 [quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1287405848' post='2180325'] i like it and i dont like it at the same time. [/quote] this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 [quote name='homeschoolmom' timestamp='1287406059' post='2180326'] this. [/quote] Third it. The artwork is amazing, I'm just not sure how I feel about it as religious art... something about the look on Mary's face... she looks kind of jaded. I wish we could see her whole face and that she looked more serene or something. (Maybe that's just me, though...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Aha, I've seen this artist before. He has an account on deviantart where he has another cool piece of the Archangel Gabriel. Cept he's a little too male model-esque. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 While it is well made I do not like the way it depicts the Blessed Virgin. The symbols (such as a serpent on her garment) do not make sense, and it seems to try to infuse cultural relevance into sacredness in a way that doesnt work. Sacred art is transcendent, pop culture is not. I believe trying to mix the two is what is giving many of us uneasy feelings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopefulBride Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Wooow, beautiful. Those cards available still? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKolbe Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Well here's the thing... Take Phatmass Records.... They offer a 'worshipful, catholic' style of rap. Which is great. However, they do not even close endorse it for liturgical use, and specifically state that as well. And in this art of rap, i have never heard it attempt to 'be seen' or associated with parts of the liturgy...save for explaining it through rap. This photograph, OTOH, seems to wishes to be set up almost as an icon. And though I have no issues with the art in itself (and actually quite like it), I do not care for how it is represented (as almost a modern icon)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 [quote name='Brother Adam' timestamp='1287407847' post='2180335'] While it is well made I do not like the way it depicts the Blessed Virgin. The symbols (such as a serpent on her garment) do not make sense, and it seems to try to infuse cultural relevance into sacredness in a way that doesnt work. Sacred art is transcendent, pop culture is not. I believe trying to mix the two is what is giving many of us uneasy feelings. [/quote] I think it's supposed to be a Celtic-esque griffin (the artist said was was Book of Kells inspired artwork)... I'm still not sure how that would fit in with a religious theme, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catholictothecore Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I'll take one, if you really are giving them away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatholicCid Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinytherese Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I agree with Ice and Brother Adam. It isn't a bad start, just needs some tweaking. If the look on Mary's face was more pleasant and didn't look so battle oriented. (It made me think of one of the women from Lord of the Rings. Arwin is it?) Reading the title of this thread, I was hoping that it wouldn't involve the artist Madonna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Cat Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 (edited) Its just a christmas card... not an icon of veneration. I think some people are taking this way too seriously. A friend and I were talking about the serpent on the robe, she and I were agreeing that it's sort like a symbolically the great demon being terrified by the new infant. At least, it looks frightened to me. I really appreciate a lot of different kinds of art ([i]it's the artist in me[/i]). Architecturally I have even enjoyed [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture"]brutalism[/url], which my mother to this day argues isn't artistic as much as its an excuse for poor design. To understand my sarcasm you would have to understand my mother and father's. While I agree it doesn't fit in with traditional Catholic symbolism and style it's definitely a mixture of different themes in a new way that seems beautiful to me. Phatmass has one of its founding foundations on that cord, literally. Catholic artists through the centuries depict the images in the theme of beauty that exists at the time, I definitely feel the artists did this. I think to dismiss it because it doesn't look like the "[i]traditional[/i]" images of our lady is a bit closed minded, considering its a christmas card. BUT this was the kind of discussion I was hoping for, so mission accomplished. Edited October 18, 2010 by Mr Cat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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