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Images of Christ
Local exhibit shows diversity through images of Christ's life
The impressive and unique collection includes 170 paintings, prints, icons, illuminated manuscripts and sculpture from diverse times and creeds.
Local artists are Lee Udall Bennion, Brian T. Kershisnik, J. Kirk Richards, Laurie Olson Lisonbee, Bruce H. Smith, Ron Richmond and Kent Goodliffe.
They share space with Carl Heinrich Bloch, Albrecht Durer, John Rogers Herbert, Sir Edward John Poynter, Rembrandt, Ary Scheffer, Bernard Sleigh, Minerva Teichert and the Workshop of Titian.
Both Richards and Richmond have two oil-on-canvas paintings. The museum commissioned Richmond's "Exchange No. 8" a year and a half ago for its permanent collection.
"It was the only one commissioned for us," said curator Dawn Pheysey.
The other one, "Triplus No. 3," is on loan. Richmond uses reds and whites in his paintings as symbols of sin and redemption, he said.
The colors are based on an OId Testament scripture, Isaiah1:18, "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
"On another level I was painting a really gut-wrenching experience in my life. Through the experience I shed a spiritual blinder and gain greater clarity of perception.
"In my work I aim for an immediacy and reality, which I hope will draw the viewer right into the space to experience the event."
European artists during the Dark Ages produced many of the works under the control of the Catholic Church. Protestant reformers created others to teach their view of Christ, while still others came from exposure to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Most of the works came from the museum's permanent collection. Others are on loan.
"Our focus is to encourage viewers to look at the different conceptions ... for that which is meaningful and uplifting," Pheysey said.
Pheysey and BYU professors S. Kent Brown and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel have compiled a book on the exhibition, "Beholding Salvation: The Life of Christ in Words and Art."
Upcoming events surrounding the exhibition include:
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