Art always leads to disagreement, and sacred art all the more. Christians have argued for centuries about how best to depict God, the saints and the mysteries of our Faith, oscillating between idolatry, iconoclasm and iconography.
What should sacred art emphasise: sorrow or joy, piety or ecstasy, idealised beauty or the world as it is? The truth is that no single representation can ever fully capture the nature of the sacred, and no single artwork can truly act as a bridge for all to connect with God. These disagreements show us that all sacred art has some flaws because it cannot grant us the fullness of truth, but only a portion of it.
