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The art we find for sale in Deseret Book really does inspire those people who buy it and it isn’t because they have no taste it is because it is genuinely inspiring. So The Testaments for its multitude of flaws still managed to bear a sweet, uplifting testimony of the reality of Christ and the Book of Mormon in spite of its being a bad, quasi-Mayan, after-school-special rip-off. The thing is that the Spirit isn’t meant to help you distinguish good art from bad art generally what the Spirit offers you is an idea of the sincerity of the artist. Nonetheless, at the end of the movie, when Christ appears to the people and heals them, I felt the Spirit. The acting was stilted, the sets and script were absurd, the make-up was horrible, the directing and scoring were distracting, and Christ was played by a kind of Nordic wisp. However, it was a terrible, terrible movie. It told the story of a group of Book of Mormon peoples and it was clear that the creative minds behind it had gone to great lengths to generate a culturally appropriate setting for the movie. They played it in the Joseph Smith building and used it as a missionary tool.
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A few years ago, the Church made a movie called The Testaments. The quandary is that they feel the Spirit when looking at that sort of art. They want to be assured that Joseph loved Emma, that Jesus will take care of them, and that their little girls will grow up to be beautiful brides. Average consumers don’t want difficult art or morally complex messages.
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LDS art seems to be created to be sold and, as such, reflects the interest of the market. In part, this is because of the nature of its distribution. It is often the case that LDS art is accused of being treacly or kitschy. So this cannot be read as a condemnation of all LDS art. In fact, the mediums with which I am most familiar are film and visual art and most of the visual art I know, I know from wandering the BYU bookstore and perusing the Ensign. In writing this post, I must first admit my personal limitations.
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