{"id":66,"date":"2020-11-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-04-22T13:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:01:04","slug":"exploring-the-edges-of-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Painting the Edges of Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the Brooklyn Museum&#8217;s collection called &#8220;The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La Vie de Notre-Seigneur J\u00e9sus-Christ)&#8221; by French painter J. James Tissot (1836-1902)?<\/p>\n<p>Tissot combined the stories he read in the Biblical Gospels with the contours of the land and the experiences of people he observed while traveling in Israel in the late 1800s (before cars, elevators, and other mechanizations began to change the landscape).<\/p>\n<p>By studying the context of land and customs, Tissot desired to present the scenes with increased historical authenticity. Tissot&#8217;s 350 paintings provide a vista of Jesus&#8217; experience.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Brooklyn Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the Brooklyn Museum&#8217;s Homepage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Exhibitions: James Tissot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/james_tissot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link to information about J. James Tissot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynmuseum.org\/opencollection\/search\/?portfolio=The+Life+of+Our+Lord+Jesus+Christ+%28La+Vie+de+Notre-Seigneur+J%C3%A9sus-Christ%29&amp;type=object\" target=\"_blank\">Link to the collection page, &#8220;The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La Vie de Notre-Seigneur J\u00e9sus-Christ)&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I share Tissot&#8217;s impulse &#8212; to provide the contours of experience. To explore the physical and social setting of Jesus&#8217; life impacts his story.<\/p>\n<p>At a glance, it&#8217;s easy to paint Jesus as kind or patient while teaching attentive crowds on a quiet hillside. It&#8217;s even easier when\u00a0&#8212; in extreme cases\u00a0&#8212; he bends the rules and walks on water.<\/p>\n<p>But is Jesus as kind and patient when stuck in holiday traffic? Or when walking <em>through<\/em> water on the way to Jerusalem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the Brooklyn Museum&#8217;s collection called &#8220;The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ (La Vie de Notre-Seigneur J\u00e9sus-Christ)&#8221; by French painter J. James Tissot (1836-1902)? Tissot combined the stories he read in the Biblical Gospels with the contours of the land and the experiences of people he observed while traveling in Israel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience-reconsidered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}