Is my church afraid of art?

I cannot tell you how many times I've drawn or crafted three crosses on a hill. Tissue paper, paint, markers, icing on a cookie, popsicle sticks… name a medium, I've probably been told to make a cross out of it. The cross is usually a silhouette at sunset and there's not much more too it than that. Now that I think about it, making cross crafts never really made me think about Jesus. 
I was never ever told to draw Jesus. Except for maybe coloring in one of these bad boys: 

Aw yeah, those were the days.

I really wish that I was asked as a child to explore who I thought Jesus was or could have been. Its something would be interested in exploring now. I was always raised with the idea that depictions of Jesus that would be considered actual art (as opposed to coloring pages or little kids' scribbles) can be very dangerous as we become focused on who he physically was and not what he did or who he was spiritually. It's one of those things I just accepted without thinking about much. I'll have to spend more time comparing that to my own beliefs.

I do know that  I've always hated seeing images of Jesus on the cross with that draped cloth over his naked body. It just seems like it's trying to romanticize a truly horrible, brutal thing and detract from its reality. Yes I do realize that there are perfectly good reasons to have that, such as art that will be shown to small children that it wouldn't be quite appropriate for. When Prof. Leeper talked about HU feeling heat over showing a naked crucified Christ in a gallery on campus, I got a bit angry. Do people really think that the nakedness was inappropriate? Wasn't the fact that Jesus was crucified at all "inappropriate?"It happened, and it didn't happen daintily or heroically or appropriately, it was dirty, embarrassing, and gruesome. 

Now for something that may just be as cute as kitten gifs…

BABY GOAT GIFS.

(that last one might be a lamb)

Have a good day.