We hear a lot about love in the springtime and yet, most people cannot define it. Contemporary culture issues proclamations such as “Love is Love”, which is unhelpful and places the concept at the mercy of limitless subjective interpretations. How can we recapture the meaning of the word? Thankfully, God […]
Writing to his art dealer in 1898, Gauguin proclaimed: “…I have finished a philosophical work on a theme comparable to that of the Gospel.”[1] At first glance, Gauguin’s celebrated painting doesn’t appear to fit such a description, but a deeper look reveals more. Paul Gauguin attended Catholic boarding school in […]
Yale recently announced the cancellation of HSAR 115, “Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to the Present.” This decision cuts off university students from an in-depth study of one of the greatest periods of artistic achievement in human history. The reason given by the Art History department chair was “…student […]
Looking up in wonder Admiring the vastness Transfixed by the beauty Sparkling lights above our heads There’s no debate about the beauty of the stars. Both atheists and Christians alike look up at them in awe […]
Art Inspired by Genetic Variability The diversity is incomprehensible! When we look at the natural world–air, land, and sea–there appears to be limitless variations of shape, form, color, and texture. As an artist and a Christian, I believe the vast array of creativity in the natural world is best explained […]
I’ve been drawing peaches lately and pondering universals. Long ago, the Greek philosopher, Plato, set forth his idea of the ‘forms’. He hypothesized each thing in our physical world had an abstract essence or quiddity (the what-ness of a thing). Using the triangle, he said that the essence of triangularity […]
I was at the state capitol yesterday witnessing the historic hearing of HB896, a bill to abolish abortion in Texas. Conversations echoed throughout every corridor: talk of constitutions, equal protection, and supremacy clauses. There were attorneys and gradmothers, ranchers and doctors, educators and families of all sizes, gathered to support […]
“Without God, there is no foundation for human value.” As New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed legislation on Tuesday, January 22nd allowing infants to be killed up the moment of their birth, he demonstrated the truth of this statement. The new law gives us a clear idea of what the […]
Looking through some art books recently, I was struck by how many paintings had ladders pointing toward the sky. From the very early depiction of Jacob’s ladder from the 4th century Catacomb of the Via Latina. To this painting from the french school, c. 1490, interpreting the same story- Art from […]