Michelangelo's Life And Accomplishments

I find this piece of artwork inspiring, in the sense that it makes you think about the many different ideas and interpretations that arise from the same source. Especially during that time, looking at other pieces of artwork that are from then as well as from similar regions of the world. There are no other paintings depicting instances from the bible that can be considered from an outsider angle, those of artists like William Blake and Dante Alighieri whom took Christianity into its darker side. While this painting in particular, all of the Sistine Chapel is beautiful and itself a complete and utter masterpiece, “Adam’s Creation” always stuck out to me more, from my own outside point of view. The differences are all around the entire creation, …show more content…
It represents that aspect of different people coming together and having the same beliefs but still viewing the actions and imagery behind it in a completely different aspect. There was even the fact that Michelangelo himself wasn’t a painter, or that kind of artist, he was a sculptor asking him to do a painting was completely out of character. He accepted, and did what he could, thus a masterpiece was born, I found more to get out of the hidden characters and small simple design schemes that followed along with Christian viewpoints. The minimalism at times, even though it is a giant painting on a churches ceiling, was to draw your eye away from it and towards it, keeping the key parts all in line with the stories, but adding its own kind of flare to the rest. There is no doubt in the way in which it inspires those who are of the faith, Michelangelo’s ability to bring forth the contours of form, to enunciate the verses and the actions that have occurred in the bible were par to none in this case, and has been able to maintain its inspirational powers to this day. The renovation alone has caused an amount of controversy, especially about what could be under the paintings and depictions. I don’t put any stock into that, it’s a giant ceiling painting of course you are going to have a mistake or three and need to cover that up. I would …show more content…
The way this brings Catholicism out is profound in the fact that it comes from those who do not already know, or who have not seen the light. Being a catholic is believing in the divinity of Christ and all the aspects of the bible that might not be believable but are taken on in faith and kept alive with stories, and psalms as well as other holy doctrines. Keeping in stride with the acknowledgement in Christianity that besides Jesus, and god there are no other infallible existences, there are holy men, saints, and other similar members of humanity that are a cut above the rest. However there Is no such thing as a divine priest, monsignor or even the pope, this kind of divinity seen in other religions is far and few in between. The ability to structure a religion a connection to the higher power of the specific religion, while knowing that an absolute, treaty, for lack of a better word, between god and humanity for their eternal souls. This type of painting depicts the types of existences that humans were designed and hoped to be, while showing what humans are and how they have grown amongst themselves. Hearing the stories and believing in it like some kind of fantastical fairy tale is one thing, but having the divine shown in 2-D and only allowing for the artists conception to be involved for the outcome abounds.