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The Crucifixion Analysis

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The Crucifixion I chose to analyze The Crucifixion because it shows such passion, love, and creativity. When I first saw The Crucifixion I was not quite able to make out what the picture was showing. However, once I finally saw the image, I was absolutely astounded by what I saw. The colors all played really well off of each other, complimented one another, and the picture became quite clear. I feel that this picture completely describes my religion. My religion, to outsiders, may look like quite a mess of feelings and emotions, but once they look at it with a different point of view, they are able to clearly see the image of God. I also felt that the symbolism portrayed in this image truly inspiring. Like I have stated before, the art appears …show more content…

I think the author wanted you to see Jesus' suffering, His passion for His people, and His sadness in humanity's decision to sin over and over and over again. His eyes appear to be closed with, again, just show that He feels so much pain for His people, that He is suffering both physically and mentally. The title of this piece of art, The Crucifixion, helps better set the scene for what is happening here. Jesus is being crucified for being the son of God, for telling everyone that He is the savior who has come to save us from all our own doom, and that He is the one who will open the gates of Heaven so that we may enter. This image helps me better understand who Jesus was because His crucifixion was a major part of His life as well as the end of His life until He rises from the dead. Without Him dying on the cross, we would never be able to go to Heaven, as we would all go down to Hell for the gates of Heaven would not be opened, and He would not be able to rise from the dead and reveal to us all that He really is God. It makes you understand that, while being nailed to a cross, beaten, and whipped, is not an ideal situation for anyone to go through, He loved, and still loves us, so much that He was willing to go through one of the worst possible situations in order to be

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