Upside Down
by Scott Gearheart
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36.000 x 24.000 x 1.750 inches
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Title
Upside Down
Artist
Scott Gearheart
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus clearly explains who He recognizes as being blessed:
�Blessed are the poor in spirit� those who mourn� the meek� those who hunger and thirst for righteousness� the merciful� the pure in heart� the peacemakers� those who are persecuted because of righteousness�� (Matthew 5: 3-10)
It was not what the crowd expected to hear! Yet even today, Christians and non-believers are still awestruck at those words of Jesus.
Jesus turned the temple (church) on its head with his declaration that day. It was seemingly a complete role reversal of common thought.
For this painting, I chose an oversized canvas to emphasize the massiveness of God. The blue and white are representative of God's divinity, while the other colors that are carried throughout the painting are used to show the haze and filtered vision that interferes with our view of God. God's existence covers all and permeates everything that exists.
The two parallel lines represent our concept of who is and who is not blessed; the top line being those who are blessed, and the bottom line being those who are not.
As if looking through a pair of binoculars or a microscope, the circle in this painting depicts our view when looking through the lens of Jesus Christ. When doing this, everything is much brighter and ways of thinking are flipped. When we look at ourselves through the lens of Jesus we see that things we place in high-value (appearances, money, status, etc.) are unimportant; Meekness, mercifulness, and pureness in heart are characteristics that are truly pleasing to God.
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January 26th, 2016
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