Speaking From the Heart: Art at Byu Museum Expresses Faith Through Symbols

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For artist Christopher Young, wood has a deep symbolic meaning. It has a lot of similarities to flesh, he says, in its grain, in its ability to show passage of time. It has strength to bear the burdens of life. It can have great beauty.

So, when the officials at Brigham Young University's Museum of Art asked Young to paint something for an exhibit centered around "the visual symbols artists employ to communicate profound truths about the life and mission of Jesus Christ," "I knew it would include wood," he says.

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Speaking From the Heart: Art at Byu Museum Expresses Faith Through Symbols

His painting, "Man of Sorrows," shows Christ holding the cross he would be crucified on, but it is different from many such paintings.

On various trips to Europe, Young says, "I've seen thousands of images of this moment in Christ's life. Most of them show him hunched over, in agony. ...

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