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Artworks by Italian artist
Andreas McMüller
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Jesus sleeps - In the cave
The second Sacred work created by Andreas McMüller (the first was, many years ago, the photographic reproduction of a very rare painting by Padre Pio when he was young), this Holy Family captures Mary, Joseph and Jesus in a moment of family intimacy.
The cave, the hearth and the protective gesture of Joseph surround the sweetness of Mary who observes Jesus, asleep before her.
My prayer is that this work gives peace and serenity to those who expose it in their own home, perhaps after having it blessed by their own pastor, as we did.
This work by Andreas McMüller (SF01)
is made on slate stone (blackboard), of cm 20x20 or 30x30
Look at us
This timeless work portrays the members of the Holy Family watching us.
The work shows a protective Saint Joseph and a serene Madonna, holding a Jesus still small but very interested in what he is seeing.
In their looks there are curiosity and serenity and they observe us, with the awareness of being a reference and with the desire to discover at what point we are on our path to God.
Path that they have already made and on which they will help us, with our collaboration, if we would like to grant it.
Quest'opera di Andreas McMüller (SF03)
è realizzata su pietra ardesia (lavagna), di cm 20x20 o 30x30
Jesus dreams
When the sun goes down and all the activities of the day have been completed, the family members, both then and now, give themselves the deserved rest, gathering in the warm embrace of the evening.
In the light of the hearth, a candle or today of television, you can relax while the children fall asleep and the adults tell the events of the day (if they still have the strength), enjoying the closeness and mutual affection.
At this moment the Holy Family of this work was caught, in the sweet moment before going to bed, while praying together thanking for the joys of the day or asking for help for tribulations, but with the awareness of never being alone.
This work by Andreas McMüller (SF05)
is made on slate stone (blackboard), of cm 20x20 or 30x30
Holy Family of Prayer
This Holy Family dates back to a period of about ten years of which nothing is known: escaping to Egypt with the tiny Jesus, they lose track of him until the Angel appears in a dream to Joseph and tells him to return to Judea. Not long after, at the age of twelve, Jesus lingered in the temple - Luca (2:41-50) - beginning his public life.
The artist wanted to resume them in that dark period, during the tribulations of the flight abroad which is a tragic event and still, unfortunately, current. They are gathered in prayer in a makeshift camp but, although tried, they have the serene faces of those who know they have God at their side.
And they recommend we have faith.
This work by Andreas McMüller (SF06)
is made on slate stone (blackboard), of cm 20x20 or 30x30
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Holy blessed Family
Mc 4, 26-34: So is the Kingdom of God: like a man who throws his seed on the ground; sleep or watch, night or day, the seed sprouts and grows. Like, he himself does not know it." God is therefore in the small things and makes them grow, but he does it stealthily, without clamour, without bass drum.
It is there that we can meet him: in a light breeze (1 Kings 19:11-13), in a gesture of affection, in an act of tolerance, in maternal love, in fatherly commitment, in the smile of children and in the poetry that pervades our lives if we only allow it.
This work by Andreas McMüller (SF07)
is made on slate stone (blackboard), of cm 20x20 or 30x30
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Shepherds in adoration (Crib)
The first Holy Families I created in the Christmas period and could not miss my crib, with the shepherds who came from all over to worship the baby Jesus.
In the Palestine of the times of Jesus, the stables were mostly precarious wooden constructions leaning against natural ravines or dug into the rock, so that saying "cave" or "stable" was practically the same thing and that is also why in the early Christian images of the "nativity" the birth is placed in a stable in the form of a shed, while in the east in the ancient icons the Child is wrapped in bands inside a deep and dark cave.
The crib tradition, especially Neapolitan of the XVI-XVII centuries, offers the cave and the stable an alternative, which consists in setting the nativity scene in the ruins and ruins of buildings of classical Greek-classical.
In these representations there is not the iconographic influence of the apocryphal gospels, or references to Sacred Scripture, but only a clear symbolic intent: the classical ruin represents the old world, crumbling and crumbling, which collapses to give way to the "new world" represented by Christ, who with "His Word of Life" renews and transforms everything.
So here is my crib, set in a suburban ruin with no date, with the Holy Family strictly in the center and the Child that shines with its own light while the shepherds (who could be shepherds, farmers, blacksmiths or do any other humble work)They sense the miracle and come to worship it.
This work by Andreas McMüller (SF07)
is made on slate stone (blackboard), of cm 20x20 or 30x30
