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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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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
— John Ciardi
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this…
— Rajneesh
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Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something…
— Unknown Author
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad…
— Harold Rosenberg
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,…
— John T. Flynn
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we…
— Susan Sontag
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Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to…
— Banksy
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