God versus Darwin? Artist doesnt take sides
Pardon Christine Goldbeck’s pun, but when a York County school district injected creationism into its high school biology course in 2004 – and removed it in 2005 upon the order of a federal judge – she followed the impassioned arguments by conservative Christians who favored God over Darwin “religiously.’’
She saved newspaper clippings, hoping to write a book about it. One day she decided to skip the book – she is a painter, so why not paint her opinions on canvas?
For six months she painted, creating seven large expressionistic canvases. They hang, stacked in two rows in a corner of her Middletown art gallery, next to lighted candles, circular wombs in glowing red-oranges and blue-greens that seem to be churning.
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Does she believe in creationism or evolution? She purposely made her canvases ambiguous, painting intuitively, not from a sketch. Feel free to tell her what you see in the paintings. She is not the type of artist who prefers to explain to you what she meant.
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Here is an image of one of her paintings.
Well, I guess I’m glad someone gets inspiration out of the whole culture-war thing. Yet I can’t help but think the artist’s position is just another bit of post-modernism’s flee from meaning.