The Vocation of Beauty – quote
“Those who aspire to a life of beauty, must, in the first place, strive to be truthful and good. If life is true it will automatically become beautiful, just as light shines forth when flame is enkindled. But if they seek after beauty in the first place… in the endContinue Reading
Your Spiritual Health – Crucial Facts Your Art Teacher Forgot to Mention.
The Great Secret Are you ready? Here it is … Art must be beautiful. The vocation of the artist is the pursuit of beauty. Art must be beautiful because it is always and everywhere a protest against the ugliness and evil in the world. Art is truth clothed in beauty.Continue Reading
To be an artist
“If it comes to that, I wont be an artist.” “You’ll always be an artist, you have no choice.” This exchange from the 1965 movie “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” takes place between two great artists of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael and Michelangelo, as they discuss the sacrifices (the agony)Continue Reading
The True Nature of Worship
What constitutes true worship? This is the theme we meditate on as we come to the middle of the Lenten season. God reveals Himself in the giving of the 10 commandments. He introduces Himself as the sole God and any form of idol worship is therefore worthy of punishment. AllContinue Reading
A Father Sacrifices His Son
For the Jews the sacrifice of Abraham is the climax of their covenant relationship with God. It is seen as a double sacrifice. First there is the sacrifice of the father, Abraham, willing to give up his own son. Then there is the sacrifice of the son who willingly givesContinue Reading
Interview with Matthew Alderman
Matthew Alderman is a graduate of the Notre Dame Architectueal School and a man of many gifts, architect, artist, and designer of liturgical furnishings. He is a regular contributor to “The shrine of the Holy Whapping” (yes, really!) and “The New Liturgical Movement” (for which he designed their new logo.)Continue Reading
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
“Daughter of a Christian Algonquin woman captured by Iroquois and married to a non-Christian Mohawk chief. Orphaned during a smallpox epidemic, which left her with a scarred face and impaired eyesight. Converted and baptized in 1676 by Father Jacques de Lamberville, a Jesuit missionary. Shunned and abused by relatives forContinue Reading
New Portfolio Link
All of the art (well most of it anyway), can now be seen at this in this portfolio.Continue Reading
Pantocrator
Part of a project exploring the relationship between Eastern and Western forms of iconography.Continue Reading