New for June 2017

June 1, 2017

New for June 2017

June is the perfect month to turn our thoughts to the great outdoors and imagery of the Good Shepherd tending his flock of sheep.  I've just added six new pieces of folk and fine art from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection to The Good Shepherd page in the Themes of Faith section offering cross-cultural variations in a variety of mediums on this much loved theme. Czech Graphic Artist Zuzana Oberthorova presents the classic portrait of the Good Shepherd carrying the lost sheep on his shoulders, exotically transformed to include two squawking parrots in a reverse applique stitched cloth panel by an unknown fabric artist of Panama's Kuna people. Swiss "Christian Surrealist" Max Hunziker offers us a troubled image of a flock-watcher in search of a stray in contrast to Czech Printmaker Frantisek Burant's majestic image of Christ as Good Shepherd, holding his staff like a regal scepter. In an illegibly signed small format etching from what is probably an East European artist, a line of sheep obediently follow their holy minder to a place where they may safely graze under his watchful eye, a scene depicted in a painting (above) by Liberian Artist Lawson Sworh. Next month the Sacred Art Pilgrim heads off on his own search for green pastures returning on-line in August. (John Kohan)