Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental… — 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 acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack… — John Walford Copy Share
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 Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal… — John Walford Copy Share
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
