The Tate has a gorgeous exhibition at the moment, peacocking two of the greats, Turner and Constable. They were contemporaries, rivals, and compared, even in their lifetimes. But was John Constable a Christian?
Category: beauty
Ask any artist if they have seen computer generated art which is designed to sell – to outsell the human. The question they’re wrestling with, is this: What is the point of being a human artist? Christians and their non-Christian colleagues are asking exactly the same question.
Chris reviews a new book by the designer Thomas Heatherwick.
Hutchmoot has just happened, in the UK for the first time. What, you ask, is a Hutchmoot? Well, let me tell you a story. In Nashville, Tennessee, lives the wonderfully talented Andrew Peterson. He’s a novelist, and a publisher, and a family man, and he keeps bees, but he is also, and above all, a
It is becoming harder for TV programmes to shock enough to get ratings, and that’s only partly because they up against an unrated internet. It’s also because as a culture (and Evangelical sub-culture) we have become much, much harder to shock.
If I said that this was the most important piece of secular philosophy I have read in a long time, you’d probably switch off. But it is, and I want you to read it.
These painters are explicitly aiming to paint an eternal tragedy. They are painting what we would call the Fallen Condition. They are expressing what it means to be a ruined Image Bearer.
