Jehovah's Witness art is perhaps best known for depicting scenes of destruction or paradise. While fundamentalist Christians have been depicting biblical scenes in the My Book of Bible Stories vein for over a hundred years, the frequency with which Jehovah's Witnesses have painted scenes of Earthly chaos, divine retribution, Armageddon, and literal depictions from John's Revelation have earned them a reputation among the general public of being doomsayers. It's worth noting, however, that Watchtower artists have depicted scenes of eternal Earthly paradise with the same frequency. The argument can be made that works of either persuasion serve as effective pieces of art, self contained slices of Americana and religious lunacy with more than a tinge of eeriness, accentuated by the poor quality of their construction rather than harmed by it. The scenes of paradise seem, to me, even more frightening and eerie than those of destruction. Everlasting conformity and the horrendously artificial smile adorned by the subjects haunt me more than the scenes of heavenly warfare.
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