worship

When Worship is the true intention of art and taken with all seriousness ala byzantine art, egyptian, Certain Chinese painting et al it becomes stiff rigid and dogmatic.

It is only when we do not worship graven images that art can be free to move as it pleases ala Renaissance Humanism, Greek art and dare I say Islamic Caligraphy. Though faith persists it does not strangle but liberates the mind in allowing men and women to contemplate their faith and not handing their faith out like lunch line cafeteria.

Because Dogma makes you stop looking at the material world and how it exists with the metaphysical world.