Wrong. It has nothing to do with my biases. I didn’t paint him. What a foolish comment.
How many images of Christ have you seen that he appears as a brown skinned Middle Eastern man?
All of the Middle Ages and Renaissance artists who painted Christ’s image, or featured him in stained glass windows did so under patronage of Europeans. So most of the iconography of Christ presents him as a white guy, yet curiously the faith still follows this fallacy. Go to any Christian merch store, see for yourself.
Christians are too full of themselves and their delusions to admit reality. Present company included.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at April 21, 2018 2:01 PM MDT
CS Lewis, in his space trilogy, posited the existence of a race of what we might call "aliens" (although he did not so refer to them as such) whose presence were perceived by us as no more than brief disturbances in our visuals fields.
The restriction was in our ability to see and perceive---not in their ability to show themselves.
I fancy that a similar limitation exists when artists strive to present a glimpse of what they have seen of things associated with what we consider to be divine.
And perhaps their overall (perhaps unknown) intent is a felt necessity to portray existence rather than physical characteristics of the person or thing so depicted.
Don Barzini 