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Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
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In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but…
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Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a…
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It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its…
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Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to…
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Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at…
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Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art…
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Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married…
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The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…
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As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,…
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Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has…
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal…
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In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the…
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In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists…
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I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just…
— Maya Beiser
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My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have…
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