It is a modern icon that is based upon an illumination in the St Albans Psalter painted in 1130AD. I think I prefer the 21st century by Peter Murphy!
Our Time of Preparation
A New Book that Addresses the Core Belief of Western Civilization
Our Time of Testing
A Charming Film About Icon Painter Aidan Hart, His Work, and His Connection to the Bethlehem Icon Centre
Steve Talley - Tonalism and Nocturnes in the American Landscape Tradition
Steve Talley’s approach is one that artists who wish to make a living from art ought to remember. He has the mindset of tradition. You start by working in the style of another, and let your own intepretion of the genre come through naturally. He is also commercially minded and so this forces him to focus on what will connect with people today - while not all that sells is good, as a general principle it is true that all art that is good will sell.
Artists and the Kingdom of God
The creative types among us, the artists, and poets, and writers and makers, spend their lives chasing “success.” Success as the world defines it usually involves some mixture of money and celebrity or fame. But for every artist who is able to sell his work for tens of thousands of dollars, there are many more Vincent Van Goughs toiling in obscurity.
To Be At Peace
New Adoration Chapel Inspired by the Portiuncular in Assisi, Dedicated by Archbishop Naumann
Who Would Know?
Painting Created by AI Machine Sells for $432, 500. Is this art?
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.
