Easter Sunday, Good Friday, and Palm Sunday

Three acrylic paintings approx 1ft x 3ft each, painted on canvases which are stretched on cedar.

(The gold border/background surrounding the three canvases is added digitally.)

Visualizing Easter

This image is meant to communicate the story of Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. They are in order from left to right.

Palm Sunday
This image is taken from Luke19:28-44.
The silver drops coming down are the tears of Jesus as he wept over Jerusalem. The many background circular shapes with arms in the air are meant to be the crowd cheering Jesus’ entry. The square shapes are meant to represent Jesus and the donkey he rode, and the gold sparkling up into the air is to remind us of the gory of God which was with Jesus.

Jesus wept as the crowd cheered. This reminds us of how much we need to draw near to God is order for us to see what he sees. The disciples were often looking a different direction from Jesus, and we catch ourselves in that same way of thinking. Let’s continue to encourage one another, pursuing God together.

“As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.”

-Luke 19:41,42

Good Friday
This is to visually remind us of the suffering Jesus went through in order to rescue us from the penalty of our sin. The bottom section which is a small confined space surrounded by black darkness, pictures the separation from -God the Father- which Jesus endured because of his love for us.

“It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.”

 -Luke 23:44-46

Easter Sunday
“He has risen.” This is meant to convey a feeling of Jesus overcoming death, and taking his rightful place of glory at the right hand of God. The canvas is bright white and smooth unlike the other two. There is a small gold-colored ground plane and rising silver brush strokes. “He has risen indeed”.

“In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” -Luke 24:5,6a

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© Keith Brabender 2017