Tag: Bettina Rheims
-
01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Bettina Rheims’s Nouvelle Eve/New Eve, With Footnotes – #43
Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam’s wife and the first woman although she is not specifically named in the Quran. According to the second chapter of Genesis,…
-
29 Photographs, CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOUS ART – Photography from the Bible, with footnotes #3
How can it be represented Christ today? How can his life, his actions and his teachings to be communicated through modern means, words we know and that can instill a sense of immediacy? In other words, how can you convey that sense of eternity as it is contained in the words of the Gospel: “I…
-
10 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 12
Bettina Rheims The new Eve II, May 1997 Ville-Evrard. From the exhibition I.N.R.I. Men and women committed to embody the figures of Christ and the Virgin, the saints, apostles and many other characters told in the Gospel parables. Almost a visual cacophony, at first glance, and yet those perfect bodies, whose icy beauty reproduced in…