Name: 【TED-Ed】A brief history of religion in art - TED-Ed
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It's only been the last few hundreds years or so

that Western civilization has been putting art in museums,

Before this, for most, art served other purposes.

was, in fact, primarily how people experienced

Paintings, sculpture, textiles and illuminations

some of whose languages incidentally have no word for art.

Generally speaking, what we're talking about here

or the arrangement of visual elements in space.

the histories of our major world religions.

Almost all have, at one time or another in their history,

gone through some sort of aniconic phase.

Aniconism prohibits any visual depiction of the divine.

or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself.

in the relationship between the individual and the divine.

However, this can be a challenge to maintain,

given that the urge to visually represent and interpret

where the depiction of Allah or the Prophet Muhammad is prohibited,

can still be found in arabesque patterns of Islamic textile design,

assume a dual role as both literature and visual art.

the divine presence of the Christ and the Buddha

eventually became widespread in these religions.

under the influence of the cultural traditions surrounding them.

in terms other than traditional, religious or social function

Today, we fetishize the fetish, so to speak.

We go to museums to see art from the ages,

in which it was originally intended to be seen.

which has been created relevant to her time

It might also be said that the history of what we call art

as our contemporary present passes into what will be

the ideologies, mythologies, belief systems and taboos

and so much more of the world in which it was made.

But this is not to say that work from another age

made to serve a particular function in that time

is dead or has nothing to offer the modern viewer.

works of art from different places and times

out of their ability to recontextualize or remix

cultural artifacts in a collective presentation.

As viewers, we're then able to consider the art

in terms of a common theme that might not be apparent

and new meanings can be derived and reflected upon.

we might even start to see every work of art

as a complementary part of some undefined, unified whole

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