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| 05/06/07 03:08 PM |
'It is surprising to me how many people separate the objective from the abstract. Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or a tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or a tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they say something. For me that is the very basis of painting. The abstracted is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can only clarify in paint.' - Georgia O'Keeffe
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| 04/20/07 01:04 PM |
"To paint and to pray are the same thing" -- Balthus
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is" -- von Balthasar
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| 03/27/07 07:56 PM |
"It is better to be conscientiously troubled and perplexed by the vastness of the unknown, than content with the little that is known." 1940, Vosdanik Adoian (Arshile Gorky)
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| 03/24/07 01:48 PM |
Lectio Divina is Latin for divine reading. The Four Moments 1) Lectio 2) Meditatio 3) Oratio 4) Contemplatio
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| 03/22/07 08:20 PM |
The iconographer 'writes' the icons he produces from his faith and from his contemplation of the multiform presence of God. Through these icons, through their images and colors, he seeks to present to others something of this mysterious world he has discovered and that he is endeavoring to understand more fully. (From 'The Story of an Icon')
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| 03/21/07 09:05 PM |
Icons are intended to respond to deep questions, and every age has its own set of problems that trouble the heart. For this reason, depictions of the canonically sanctioned subjects of iconography such as the Holy Trinity, Christ, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the saints and angels often reflect the historical circumstances experienced by the artists who painted them. Thus, an icon may be considered an expression both of individual faith and of the manifestation of a civilization's aesthetic values and material possibilities. Troubled times have often produced icons of tranquility; times of peace and plenty often bring forth icons that stress asceticism in an attempt, perhaps, to restore balance between material and spiritual values. (From 'Windows to Heaven')
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| 03/12/07 08:28 PM |
"create things of the spirit" - a seeker honoring Nature & something more than Nature. marking the physical with a metaphysical light for those who care to see it Somewhat closer to the heart of Creation than usual but far from close enough - Paul Klee
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| 03/10/07 12:32 PM |
Aquinas: 3 essentials to Beauty integritas (wholeness) consonantia (harmony) claritas (radiance)
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