Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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.WE flat a 3 -' Foreword . . . and that brother band, The sorrowing exiles from their Fatherland Leaving their home in Kriesheinrs bowers of vine, And the blue beauty of their glorious Rhine, To seek amidst our solemn depths of Wood Freedom from man and holy peace with God. -John Greenleaf Whittier. ENNSYLVANIA Dutch a1't is not merely the fanciful ex- pression of crude colonial artists, but rather the creation of a boundless surge of religious emotion. The above quotation from Whittier expresses the heavy heart of a people seeking a land where they might be free to express themselves in religious worship as they pleased. This basic desire gave the art forms of the Pennsylvania Dutch a certain amount of independence and continuity of design not concerned with form, but idea. They printed and painted what they saw within the cloisters of their own heartsg and to draw such lilies is a far different matter from painting the lilies that T grow in the Held. i The symbolism of Pennsylvania Dutch art is described K very well in the words of Jacob Boehme, a Shoemaker of long ago, For the rose in the time of the lily shall blossom in May when the winter is past, for blindness to the wicked and for light to the seeing. The Rose of Sharon was used to symbolize Christ. The blos- soming of the lily meant the perfect life which they hoped to find and live in the new land. The eagle became the symbol of the new nation they would organize there. A pair of cooing doves with necks entwined signi- fied the divine love that God ever expressed toward them. Pennsylvania Dutch art was a craft art in which beauty was combined with utility, and which found expression on chests, birth certificates, hymn books, barns, tombstones, samplers, stove plates, and tavern signs. Thus it was not so much decorative as it was a part of the living heritage of culture and life handed down in daily use from generation to generation, until it was crowded out by the Industrial Age. This now lost art is still a part of the heritage of the greater portion of Goshen College students and faculty. The Maple Leaf of 1943 has used it as an art theme in the sincere desire to recover for all of us something beautiful and true, the deeper meaning of which lies hidden in the soul of Goshen College-that of the human heart seeking freedom from man and holy peace with God. And in this theme We overlay and symbolize the life and spirit of which we have been a part throughout the year. E on Q. cgi use P 0,0 1 T can I I' 9'

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