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Body Images
Tart
Clifford Davis
alkyd on paper
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“There is a devil in every cathedra,” so the saying goes. In a kind of programmatic chiaroscuro, the iconography of the Christian religion has not ignored the existence of evil. The gut response of the popular mind even today to depictions of the devil reveals the enduring fascination with the precise nature and appearance of the adversary of God and man. These p aintin s be an as an extrapolation from several years of painting religious icons of saints. Dothe devils have an iconographic tradition? In Fra Angelico’s paintings they are merely silhouettes with a gleaming row of teeth. It is possible to see them as comical in their minimalism. But some people find picture of the devil upsetting and are moved to a state of discomfort or fear. Maybe believing in the reality of a devil is not so far from believing in the reality of a savior.
