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Research Question: - Why do different religions choose to express themselves differently in art than expressing it all the same way? & what symbols might be useful to them to in able to show what religion and beliefs they feel.

Introduction to Topic: - In society we all have people who choose different religions for wanting to praise different gods than others. We might not know there reasoning but the reason is maybe because they think it is better for them to choose who they want to praise or who they might want to be with. As a religion there is a group of people who like to get together and show how much they worship their god or gods. Everyone has a choice on how they want to be known and whom they want to be known by so therefore we all choose what we want and the choices we make.

Describe your research question in detail: - It is significant to explore this topic in my mind because not only you can see the different types of drawings but also since they have different things that might symbolize other things differently from other religions. Also we might have a different way of expressing feelings and paintings through symbols, colors, and other things.

Sum up/describe the body of your text: - Basically every religion has a way of showing themselves through other peoples eyes. In this case I want to compare how some of them differ from others to get their religion across and show how they interact with paintings, music and other things differently than the other religions.

Describe each religion’s perspective on your topic, as you see it:



- This world famous picture called “The Last Supper” is known by Christianity to be the last time Jesus had toast and wine with his disciples. This picture has a effect on many people, it has so many different objects that can be pointed out in it that is why it makes it so special. As you can see in the picture they are having bread and wine, Jesus told them that the bread was meant as “His body” that anyone who took the bread will have a piece of his body. As for the wine it was known for “His Blood” which was also apart of him. Christians remember him through those objects and actually take them in everyday mass as a token of gratitude.

- In this picture the first thing you might actually notice are the weird scriptures inside of the picture. These scriptures are said to be signs of “Allah” the god of the Islamic Religion. It is said that in honeycomb language this word says Allah. I believe that the Islamic puts these scriptures of his name to show respect and honor to him as they worship him. It is said that this picture is not the only one with this type of writing. Many more pictures by Islamic religion show these marks as shown below:



Compare: - In the pictures there are many differences and similarities. Some things they have in common is the type of way to symbolize things, for example in both pictures there is some way that they are showing there honor by showing it in the picture. They have ways or things that show what they are trying to get through; therefore they both have symbols that mean something. Differences are that the last supper does not having any words written in the picture. The last supper is pretty much self-explanatory so basically no words are needed, but for the Islamic one, there are many reasoning’s behind the words that help describe the picture.

- Themes that emerge behind the religion is the fact that all drawings or pictures have to relate to the religion and show some type of way who they worship and why. This shows that people take religion very seriously and whenever they have a chance to show why, they will take the chance and show why.

- I learned that many religions have different ways of showing art from there religion. Whether it be words, symbols, scriptures, or objects they will always have a way of showing their selves.

- I think it is important in today’s world because it gives us all a clear view of the religions and what goes through there minds as a whole unity.

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