MATT440 - Interpretation of Art Is Subjective, Except When It Isn't
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
Matt Whitman
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour podcast. Matt is still down with the |
| 0:14.7 | frog in his throat, so I'm Jeff and I'll be your substitute today. Feel free to make |
| 0:19.2 | fun of my name. Some suggestions are Jeff Smellyfoot or Mr. Buggerstrum. I just watched |
| 0:27.0 | a fascinating documentary on the theft of a bunch of art from the Isabella Gardner |
| 0:32.4 | Museum out in Boston that happened back in 1990. And these two guys dressed up as police |
| 0:37.5 | officers got let in and just spent a couple hours ransacking the place. And one of the main |
| 0:44.5 | pieces of art that was stolen was this Rembrandt Seascape called the Storm on the Sea of |
| 0:50.0 | Galilee. And to this day, no one knows whatever happened to all of those paintings that got |
| 0:55.0 | stolen. They could be buried in someone's backyard. Some people think they went through |
| 0:59.1 | the hands of the mafia and got transported all over the world. Maybe they got destroyed. |
| 1:03.4 | It's kind of a sad thing and those paintings might be lost forever. But it made me think |
| 1:08.2 | because on the wall in my office, I have the storm in the sea of Galilee, print, not |
| 1:13.0 | the actual one as far as you know. And I look at it a lot and I love that painting, but |
| 1:19.2 | I had this picture in my head of somebody walking in and seeing that painting on the |
| 1:22.5 | wall and saying, wow, you have the new movie poster for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean |
| 1:27.9 | movie. Look at that. And I'd be like, well, actually, no, that's Jesus in the Apostles. |
| 1:33.0 | No, that totally looks like Captain Jack Sparrow. No, that that's by Rembrandt, he even painted |
| 1:37.1 | himself in the picture. No, that totally looks like Johnny Depp. At some point, it becomes |
| 1:42.0 | a ridiculous argument, right? Okay, that paintings from like the 1630s. There's no way there's |
| 1:47.6 | any reference at all to what this hypothetical person thinks it might be. But we do this |
| 1:52.2 | sometimes. We say, well, no, art is in the eye of the beholder and I bring my own interpretation |
| 1:56.6 | to it. Well, no, it's literally called the storm on the sea of Galilee. It is a picture |
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