..be transformed by the renewing of your mind

Good old vintage cartoons..

I have also come to realise that teaching a small child about values and important concepts is not easy, needs to have stories for them to understand and catch the point..

Art nouveau … is something that I’m quite into for my- our new room deco.  I think it’s because when I’m very small, the piano lesson room has a big picture that looks like these cherubs and I would keep looking at it while waiting for my turn.

Perhaps inspired by Solomon’s temple— that has cherubs and pomegranates..

Inspired..

I’ve deleted the pictures of the cherubs, because I just found out that the cherubims mentioned in the bible are not babies with small wings…

Good evening artesacra-ga and thank you for the question.

Cherubs (Cherubim) are the second highest Order of Angels (the first
being Archangels). In the Throne Room they were said to stand next to
the Throne of God.

Cherubs are the first Angels mentioned in the Bible when two Cherubs
are placed by God to guard the gates to Eden with Flaming Swords.

Genesis 3:24:  "He drove out the man; and at the east of the Garden of
Eden He placed the Cherubim, and a Flaming Sword which turned every
way, to guard the way to the Tree of Life."

Ezekiel 10:14:  “And every one had four faces: the first face was the
face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the
third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.”

They were not described as the cute little "cupid like" Angels
depicted by painters, but instead as having four wings. (Ezekiel
10:21).  They also combined features of these four creatures; the
stature and hands of a man, the hooved feet of a calf and the two
pairs of wings.  Two of the wings extended upward, meeting above and
sustaining the throne of God; while the other two stretched downward
and covered the creatures themselves. They never turned, but went
"straight forward" as the wheels of the cherubic chariot, and they
were full of eyes "like burning coals of fire" (Ezekiel 1:5- 28; 9:3,
10, 11:22).

They were also mentioned in the 2nd book of Chronicles where the King
Solomon decorates the Temple with the images of cherubs.

2 Chron 3:10: "And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of
image work, and overlaid them with gold."

Figures of golden cherubs with outstretched wings were on the lid of
the Ark of the Covenant, and carved engravings of cherubs were on the
walls of the Temple's inner and outer sanctuaries.

Drawings of winged creatures appear on Mesopotamian stone tablets
starting around 4000 BC.   In paintings, they usually accompanied any
of the Holy Trinity, as well as the Madonna.

Many today envision cherubs to be naked little children with halos and
wings (think Valetine's Day cards).  These representations arose in
Renaissance times (see Raphael's Sistine Madonna at (
http://www.eyeconart.net/history/Renaissance/sistine_madonna.htm  )
and are based on still earlier representations found in Roman art
forms and late Christian art.  Some art historians believe Christians
adopted the image of the  winged dawn goddess Aurora or Eos to
represent angels.

Another interpretation of the nakedness of cherubs:

“...Before the sin of Adam and Eve, the cherubs were unnecessary; they
appear only as a result of the sin. Perhaps we may draw the following
conclusion - the cherubs represent none other than Adam and Eve
themselves, young and innocent and naked in the Garden of Eden...”

Source:  Aish.com
( http://www.aish.com/torahportion/moray/Innocence_Lost_and_Found.asp )

Cherubs are often confused with Putti.  Putti comes from the Latin,
putus, meaning "little man”.  They are spiritual beings and thus
depicted as winged little people. Years later, they were being
depicted the same way. Which one they were, simply depended upon the
theme of the painting or sculpture:

If religious (sacred) -- they were Cherubs.
If secular or mythic (profane) -- they were Putti.

I hope this answers your question.  If you would like clarification
before rating my answer, please do not hesitate to ask!

Nenna-GA
Google Researcher

Sources:  Art Renewal Center
( http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/2003/Best_of_ARC/best1.asp?msg=226&forumID=32
)

Worldnet Grace Ministries
( http://radicalgrace.com/creat10.htm )

Metareligion
( http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Christianity/Articles/cherubin.htm )

Answers.com
( http://www.answers.com/topic/cherub )

Google Search Terms:

( ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cherubs+symbolism+religiom )
( ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cherubs+throne+of+god )
( ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=cherubs+in+art+with+god )

For the room. These are quite small, thinking of making more of these motifs below the room windowsill.. or something. Very easy to trace, haha, less than 10 minutes… I’m nuts at drawing.

Passed by a big jigsaw puzzle shop while out with my friends just now… and I’m really keen to get an artistic one to do with my sis for our new “Mongy and Nana” room. Haha whatever.

My friend recommended the “Judgment Day” Jigsaw, but it was not available there. But I saw other paintings by Leonardo da Vinci which would look great… the one with the angel outside a porch pointing towards a woman with a book, the last supper, mona lisa …

But I’m also rather attracted to the Hello Kitty shiny reflective jigsaw which will be too cutesy for my sis.

There are also the 3D ones that will make up a sphere… I would choose the world-globe one but it’s quite ex.

Those that will glow in the dark will look nice too.. if only they can have glow-in-the-dark last supper, atomic bomb,  or mona lisa… that would be so cool.

She’s great in filling the parts of the jigsaw, whereas I’m okay with finding the borders first… heheh.

Quite cheap too.

But mathematical puzzles like the “eternity solution” are good for the brain too. My brain is getting rusty. Help!!