Art is the product of artifice and is by nature artificial. Artificial intelligence is a misnoma. It is a creation of the programmer who created the algorithm and is not itself creative. It is artificial, like art, but it’s not intelligence.
Why We Should Encourage Reproductions of Sacred Art
The Arts and Battles in the Holy Sepulchre
How Halloween Corrupts Us - And Why Ad-Orientem Worship Will Dispel Satan
What is sad for me, is not so much that people who hate the Church and Mary, want to destroy the symbolism that supports it and replace it with signs of the anti-Christ and the anti-Mary. One would expect that. The dismay is how little pushback there is from those who believe and ought to know better.
The Princess Bride and Imperfect Beauty
Imperfection or even infirmity then, becomes beautiful because it is made to serve the beauty within. In a mysterious way the weakness of a form bends to our true nature and our ultimate destiny, as glorified sons and daughters of God. Imperfect Beauty allows the perfect Beauty of God to shine more brightly.
Cacophony and Monotony are the Twin Principles of Modern Design. Whatever Happened to Harmony?
The Church and the Sacred Arts – Architecture
Catholic Art Guild Annual Conference, Chicago, November 4th.
The School of St Albans: Medieval Wall Paintings from St Albans Cathedral Itself!
I believe that this approach of where the artist describes form with line, rather than tonal or color variation offers artists a way of painting that eliminates the scourge of naturalism today which is sentimentality. I would encourage artists and patrons to look at this as an option for covering large areas of their church walls.
The Church and Sacred Art
Anyone Interested In A New Ministry? Turning Prison Cells Into Monastic Cells
The Church and the Sacred Arts - Music
When it comes to the Liturgy, what does the Church actually tell us about the role of music, and why guidelines does the Church give us in selecting music?
Of the three sacred arts of art, architecture, and music, the Church has given us the most explicit direction when it comes to music. But as music acts (or should act) in concert with art and architecture, what is said of one can apply to the others.
If You Want to Change the World, Think Big and Act Little - Become a Monastic SJW!
Liturgical Art and Liturgical Man
Pray for Rain and Dig for Water! A Traditional Way to Overcome Creative Block
Artists and the Church - Benedict XVI
Artists need the Church to remind them who they are and why they are here. They need the refuge of the Barq of Peter to shield them from the work of the Adversary that preys upon their ego and the wants and desires that are common to all people regardless of their vocation. Artists need the Church as much as the Church needs artists because it is in the Church that the Artists finds True Beauty and the meaning of their lives.
The Rothko 'Chapel' In Texas - It's Not Christian, But Most Christian Churches Are No Better
The Artists and the Church - John Paul II
Pope Saint John Paul II perhaps understood the sensibility of artists better than most pontiffs. He was, after all, a poet, playwright, and actor himself. His Letter to Artists, written in 1999, deserves special attention among those struggling to find a way to reconcile being an artist with being Christian.
Top Catholic Sculptor Offers Apprenticeships At His Studio - Eligible for Studio Credit with the Pontifex University MSA
An aspiring Catholic artist needs to learn not only the skills of his or her art, but also an understanding our traditions, and how to depart from strict adherence to naturalistic appearances so as to reveal the invisible truths of the Faith. Andrew Smith's training offers an education in both the skills and the Catholic tradition of sculpture.
