“Art is not a plaything, but an influence upon our lives, real and distinct.” – Wyke Bayliss We suffer from a surfeit of art. We are surrounded by it in all forms of expression every moment of our lives. It is so ubiquitous that it has become virtually invisible andContinue Reading
Art is a Medium of Revelation. God is the source of all that is beautiful. Art is the language of Beauty. Art, architecture and music, therefore, are absolutely ways for God to speak to the world. According to Pope Saint John Paul II, the person who has a unique vocationContinue Reading
“Man’s purpose is to know God and to love him and to serve Him. We do this by working towards the perfection of the world.” The Beauty of Creation On the sixth day of creation, “God saw everything that He had made, and behold it was very good.” Genesis 1:31Continue Reading
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder? What is Beauty? Is it objective or subjective? Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? It has been said that we fear what we do not understand. We grow to hate what we fear. And we destroy what we hate.Continue Reading
“Michelangelo worked with a sense of urgency as if he were afraid he would not have time to explore all that he saw of God’s beauty in the work he created.” The old that is strong does not whither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” – J.R.R. TolkienContinue Reading
Goodness and Beauty Pope Saint John Paul II said, “The artist has a special relationship to beauty. In a very true sense it can be said that beauty is the vocation bestowed on him by the Creator in the gift of “artistic talent.” (Letter to Artists, paragraph 3) So theContinue Reading
The vocation of the painter, indeed the vocation of any artist, is first and foremost, to create beauty. Even evil, when depicted in their work, must depicted beautifully. Art that is ugly and shallow, with no Truth behind it, shows us a world without God. The role of the artistContinue Reading