Rebecca Allan: Landscape as a Devotional Motif
Posted in Art, Environmental Piety, Painting on Sep 29th, 2010
ShareENVIRONMENTAL PIETY IS A LARGE COMPONENT of contemporary artists’ interest in landscape. Artists announce their state of grace by genuflecting to the forms and ecosystems of the natural world. This displacement of religious impulses onto nature—Mother Mary, dressed in green—is seconded even by the churches. Think of the altar to Gaia in New York’s Cathedral [...]