As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at… — John Walford Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects… — John Walford Copy Share Image
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system. — John Walford Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect -… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour? — John Walford Copy Share Image
Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision… — John Walford Copy Share Image
In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
