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| − | ==Question: Does Church art always reflect reality?==
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| − | ===All art, including Church art, simply reflects the views of the artist: It may not reflect reality===
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| − | [[File:Samuel the Lamanite Prophecies from the City Wall by Arnold Friberg.jpg|center|400px|thumb|Samuel the Lamanite Prophecies from the City Wall by Arnold Friberg]] | |
| − | It is claimed by some that the Church knowingly "lies" or distorts the historical record in its artwork in order to whitewash the past, or for propaganda purposes. <ref>Accusations of the Church lying because of inaccurate artwork are offered by the following critical sources: {{CriticalWork:McKeeverJohnson:Mormonism 101|pages=Chapter 8}}; {{CriticalWork:MormonThink|url=http://mormonthink.com/moroniweb.htm|date=8 May 2012}}; {{CriticalWork:MormonThink|url=http://mormonthink.com/transbomweb.htm|date=28 April 2012}}; {{CriticalWork:Palmer:Insider|pages=1}}</ref> For example, some Church sanctioned artwork shows Joseph and Oliver sitting at a table while translating with the plate in the open between them. Daniel C. Peterson provides some examples of how Church art often does not reflect reality, and how this is not evidence of deliberate lying or distortion on the part of the Church:
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| − | Look at this famous picture....Now that’s Samuel the Lamanite on a Nephite wall. Are any walls like that described in the Book of Mormon? No. You have these simple things, and they’re considered quite a technical innovation at the time of Moroni, where he digs a trench, piles the mud up, puts a palisade of logs along the top. That’s it. They’re pretty low tech. There’s nothing like this. This is Cuzco or something. But this is hundreds of years after the Book of Mormon and probably nowhere near the Book of Mormon area, and, you know, and you’ve heard me say it before, after Samuel jumps off this Nephite wall you never hear about him again. The obvious reason is....he’s dead. He couldn’t survive that jump. But again, do you draw your understanding of the Book of Mormon from that image? Or, do you draw it from what the book actually says?<ref>Daniel C. Peterson, "[https://www.fairmormon.org/conference/august-2014/reflections-letter-ces-director Some Reflections on That Letter to a CES Director]," ''FairMormon Conference'' 2014</ref>
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| | [[es:Pregunta: ¿La mayoría de las representaciones artísticas de la iglesia siempre sean realistas?]] | | [[es:Pregunta: ¿La mayoría de las representaciones artísticas de la iglesia siempre sean realistas?]] |
| | [[pt:Pergunta: São representações artísticas da igreja sempre realista?]] | | [[pt:Pergunta: São representações artísticas da igreja sempre realista?]] |
