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“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.” quote by John Walford — Download Open image

“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.”

John Walford

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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, 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…

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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 worst, repulsed.…

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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 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…

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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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Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

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