The true religion of the world is the pursue of truth and this endeavour we know as the artistic quest of mankind. So is it wrong to say that art is religion?
An artist's endeavour is to show the truth from every perspective for all to see and relish.
Indeed for an artist who seeks to explore the depth of his quest for truth, the destination he arrives at is the sanctity of the Absolute. Even in the case of an artist untrained in the techniques of art but is spiritually inclined, he is able to create fine works of art by virtue of his knowledge of the Absolute Truth. In fact it is the artist who is not learned in the techniques of art that should be accorded premier status as a true artist for his endeavour is borne of his personal search for the Absolute Truth. For it is he/she who will be able to display originality in his works as seen in the excellence of the works by the Naive art movement.
Is it also any wonder that all the great medievel and prehistoric artists chose to depict religious movements, God, angels and apostles as their main subject. Of course with the modernist art movements, secularism is the order of the day. But here too we can recognise that the denial of God or The Absolute Truth is merely a different approach taken by the artistic soul to dissect atheism and find the Absolute within it.
In fact the Vaishnavas of India have used art as an attempt to come as close as possible to describing the beauty and omnipotence of the Absolute Reality. As a Vaishnava guru pointed out, the paintings produced by Vaishnava artists are the window to the spiritual world.
