In 1937 in Munich the nazi party exhibited modernist work in a way that showed their distaste of it. They were more interested in the classical work of the Romans and Greeks. Eventually all modernist works were banned.
Germany had become the centre for the avant garde, by the 30,s, and this was really its peak, but an underlying threat loomed in Europe.
It is interesting that this work was seen as a threat. The nazi party claimed that much of the work was done by jews. In fact Shoenberg and Mahler, classical musicians at the time and many expressionist painters were jews or BOLSHEVIKS, as the nazi’s liked to describe them. It was a fear of anything different but also a more sinister hatred.
So in this way things avant garde were rejected. They were a threat. Once again you might see the enemy’s attempt to stamp out anything new and pioneered but essentially good and constructive.
This puts one in mind of the story of God’s people coming out of Egypt. Throughout history we can see the continual attempts to get rid of God’s chose. Pharaoh’s army continued to pursue Israel even when they came out of captivity. But GOD MAKES A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WAY.
God continues to make a way. The whole area of creativity is a very powerful one. We can express God’s character through this. The human brain seems to respond more to the visual. REJECTED people can feel so broken that they are numb to whole areas of their lives. God wants to speak to us and He will use whatever means is available. Unfortunately the creative world is hijacked by much impurity but we must win it back and become relevant. In the same way that the expressionists tried to express emotion or that Kandinsky tried to express the spiritual as he understood it through colour and shape and music.
God delights in choosing what everyone else might reject.
(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter
Germany had become the centre for the avant garde, by the 30,s, and this was really its peak, but an underlying threat loomed in Europe.
It is interesting that this work was seen as a threat. The nazi party claimed that much of the work was done by jews. In fact Shoenberg and Mahler, classical musicians at the time and many expressionist painters were jews or BOLSHEVIKS, as the nazi’s liked to describe them. It was a fear of anything different but also a more sinister hatred.
So in this way things avant garde were rejected. They were a threat. Once again you might see the enemy’s attempt to stamp out anything new and pioneered but essentially good and constructive.
This puts one in mind of the story of God’s people coming out of Egypt. Throughout history we can see the continual attempts to get rid of God’s chose. Pharaoh’s army continued to pursue Israel even when they came out of captivity. But GOD MAKES A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WAY.
God continues to make a way. The whole area of creativity is a very powerful one. We can express God’s character through this. The human brain seems to respond more to the visual. REJECTED people can feel so broken that they are numb to whole areas of their lives. God wants to speak to us and He will use whatever means is available. Unfortunately the creative world is hijacked by much impurity but we must win it back and become relevant. In the same way that the expressionists tried to express emotion or that Kandinsky tried to express the spiritual as he understood it through colour and shape and music.
God delights in choosing what everyone else might reject.
"... Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves."
Romans 14:22
(C) 2013 Daniel Chuter
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