What Is the Importance of Taking Art Seriously?

To take art seriously is to take it seriously as something that's more than merely representational. Part of taking art seriously is treating it as more than merely message, even though it also is message. Some of the most successful exhibitions have been ones where the works of art that the curators have chosen had no prior relationship with the biblical text at all and the artists may have no knowledge of or interest in christianity. And so i think what we want is part oftaking art seriously,. is that you begin to take the world more seriously as a place that discloses god, god's grace, god's beauty, god's goodness and I don't believe didactic art lacks lob of