{"id":211,"date":"2017-02-07T11:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=211"},"modified":"2017-02-07T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:50:24","slug":"style-and-signature-in-religious-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/style-and-signature-in-religious-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Style and Signature in Religious Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s\u00a0<em>My Name is Red<\/em>\u00a0observes\u00a0the relationship between the East and the West and notably,\u00a0the effects of Western influences on art. Returning to Istanbul after 12 years, Black\u00a0notices the many things that have changed since his departure, recognizing they originate from the growing influence of Western civilization on the East. One of the central themes of the novel revolves around the clash between Eastern and Western methods of painting, which merely express\u00a0different ways of seeing the world. Islamic painters attempted to depict the world from Allah&#8217;s point of view, whereas the Europeans from a human perspective. I really enjoyed looking at the different eastern book covers in class\u00a0on Monday and seeing which ones seemed to accurately represent what art should epitomize\u00a0in eastern countries: no discernible faces and no sense of hierarchy.\u00a0The various narrators often bring up the idea of &#8220;signature&#8221; and &#8220;style&#8221; &#8211; in the East, all painters were to imitate the work of their older masters, there was no room for personal\/identifiable style or technique. However, in the west, painters ubiquitously would\u00a0take credit for their work by signing their art pieces or making them recognizable with a personal style. Being a westerner, I never really gave much thought to the idea of showing belonging with a signature on religious artwork.\u00a0I don&#8217;t believe this is as controversial nowadays; however, it makes me wonder if any\u00a0art work that has a religious purpose should be taken credit for,\u00a0as opposed to\u00a0merely dedicated to the Divine. I believe that in the end, the debate between East and West regarding art is somewhat futile and only reflects different ideas of devotion to religion, which the East and West may simply not share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s\u00a0My Name is Red\u00a0observes\u00a0the relationship between the East and the West and notably,\u00a0the effects of Western influences on art. Returning to Istanbul after 12 years, Black\u00a0notices the many things that have changed since his departure, recognizing they originate from the growing influence of Western civilization on the East. One of the central themes of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/style-and-signature-in-religious-paintings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Style and Signature in Religious Paintings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}