1. Religious Wall Painting
Want to know more about Asian art wall
paintings? Just visit the links provided.
Wall Painting may have started in caves but it
ended up as the finest of fine arts successfully
landing in the hands of the noblest institution
of all which is the Roman Catholic Church. For
centuries, such religious institution
monopolized the field of arts. If so, then what
was expected from paintings then but religious
paintings!
2. From Byzantine era moving forth, the classic
altar pieces, church murals, fresco, etc are still
widely venerated to-date. In fact, most of the
churches all throughout the globe were able to
preserve such beautiful and delicately created
pieces of artworks. They might not be from
Byzantine but you can tell just by looking at
them that they have surpassed calamities
experienced in centuries. We see these
religious paintings in Europe and many as well
are Asian arts. In the Philippines alone, a
visiting guest will be prompted or enticed to
visit antique churches as well as new ones if he
or she wants to have a good look of wall
paintings. Museum may be few and in fact and
visiting them to enjoy fine arts is unnecessary if
only the desire is to feed the simple craving of
the eye. From religious paintings carried over
from ancient times were expressive artworks to
3. challenge the belief of religion. Expression was
made to be very creative to hide the rebellious
meaning of the art. They were not vulgar. They
were not a direct representation of opposition
lest they’d not be called art.
As years went by religious wall paintings were
not just confined to Christianity. Other Asian
countries, as well, used art as depiction of their
own belief. You see Buddhism by just throwing
in a glance to an artwork and many other more
religions covering Asian art. This is why in this
generation which was a big hop from pre-
modern age where art was centered to Roman
Catholics alone, religious paintings are
widespread throughout the continent only
because among the regions of the Globe, Asia is
known for its diverse religions.
4. Going back with wall painting many centuries
ago, the church lost its tight grip over arts. It
was early renaissance to modern age when art
started to show opposing views to what the
Church upheld. However as mentioned, these
arts may invoke critical thinking but still
remained to be very creative and style and was
never vulgar. The meaning was in depth yet it
needed to be discerned. And they were still
called religious wall paintings because they
were still inspired by faith; crafting them
needed religion to be the subject of the art.
And not only that such art invoked critical
thinking but also was crafted in a more creative
manner to not fully reveal its real meaning.
