Spirituality in oil painting
Art is a powerful, relaxing, therapeutic tool, but it can also provide powerful insights into the unique configuration of the unconscious mind and the soul when represented with spirituality. Some oil paintings embody real spirituality.
 A diverse collection of oil paintings provides a new assessment of the subject of religion and spirituality in it. Oil painters give their contributions referencing concepts of faith and religious symbology. The artists concentrate on the subject of religious practice and spirituality through visual enigmas. Some works invoke ancient religious tradition. By depicting devices and texts of religious practice, an artist addresses spirituality and provokes religious belief. Some oil painting works, with their casual contemporary feel, represents spirituality enacted as a necessary act of survival.
Some of the oil paintings embodying spirituality are Prayers Along the Trail by Jack Terry, Welcome Home for Christmas, Places in the Heart, Christmas Traditions and The Light Of Christmas by Thomas Kinkade, Simple Wonders by Kathryn Andrews Fincher, A Brush With God: An Icon Workbook by Peter Pearson, The Painting Path: Embodying Spiritual Discovery Through Yoga, Brush and Color by Linda Novick and Richard Segalman, Hebrew Illuminations by Adam Rhine and Louise Temple, Graham Crackers & Milk: Food for the Heart & Soul by John K. Graham, etc. The painting titled “Still Life with Grape Juice and Sandwiches (Xenia)” by David Ligare is a luminous realist work that depicts a glass pitcher filled with juice beside a stack of white bread sandwiches on a small cut-away stage or altar by a body of water visible only at the right edge of the image. The painting titled “The Last Supper,” by Salvador Dali depicts Christ on the cross. Kim Dingle’s “My Struggles with Jesus,” displays various dolls in disarray constitute a devastating moral query. Louis Parson’s spiritual oil paintings access the source of your creativity, connecting with the emotions and with the unconscious mind, and ultimately with Soul . Artist Myra Mandel’s style of contemporary, spiritual Judaica combines images of the beautiful landscapes and wild flowers of Israel with verses from the Psalms of King David, the Song of Songs of King Solomon and the words of the prophets. Artist Thomas Kinkade mostly tries to put Christian spirituality in his paintings. Artist Ruth Cugelman produced hundreds of works focused on feminine beauty, spirituality, family and nature. Peter Zokosky’s oil painting titled “Two Saints” and Laura Lasworth’s clear works juxtapose religious practice with secular results. Hess’s painting clearly reference religious mythology. The philosophical, numinous paintings by Bari Kumar, F.Scott Hess, Aaron Smith and Jon Swihart look and feel contemporary and invoke an invisible world of spirituality. Finn Romero's "Anatomy awake" is a series of anatomically inspired oil paintings which are a blend of spirituality, painting and nursing.
The paintings and quotations representing spirituality serve as a gentle reminder of religion and holiness. Spirituality means not only religion, and the artifacts and symbols of religious practice. Such spiritual paintings serve as powerful tool awakening spiritual practices that can quickly and efficiently increase your consciousness and enable you to see more clearly through reality. The purpose of such paintings is to end the dreams of the conditioned mind, which make you see life through past experiences. They emphasize on spiritual transcendence, mindfulness, and awakening meditation techniques. These light-infused spiritual paintings bring hope and joy to millions each year.
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