by Michael Dunn | Nov 10, 2020 | Architecture, Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Visual Arts
On a summer evening in July 1927, an artist went for a walk outside the city of Ypres, Belgium. By chance, he spoke to a passerby whose words inspired his best-known painting, a work that symbolically brought fact and meaning together.Will Longstaff, born in...
by Michael Dunn | Oct 12, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Visual Arts
Long ago, a boy grew up so beautiful that he met a terrible death, made worse because everyone said it was his own fault. The myth of Narcissus has come down to us as a cautionary tale about a singular youth in love with his reflection. Examined more closely, the...
by Michael Dunn | Sep 3, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Visual Arts
Saint Paul wrote that we could see and understand God’s eternal power and divine nature through the things he had made. 1 Through painting, artists can help us uncover such things for ourselves. One example is a picture of the highest mountain in the Grampian ranges,...
by Christian Roy | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory, Visual Arts
We tend to forget that the advent of the Atomic Age, with the destruction of Hiroshima in a single bomb blast 75 years ago on August 6, 1945, was not greeted with dread so much as with wonder at mankind’s near-divine power over matter. For it was thought that man was...
by Christian Roy | Aug 3, 2020 | Articles, Language, Theory, Visual Arts
Canadian literary critic Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) became at once a media personality and a media guru in the 1960s, with his ground-breaking reflection on different communication technologies’ effects on consciousness, from the alphabet to the Internet —which he...
by Michael Dunn | Jul 5, 2020 | Articles, Visual Arts
Recently, an unhappy person who has been living on the fringes, sent a message to her friends that the darkness was lifting. She now understands the truth about herself. She knows the source of her problems and how to overcome them. She must love herself. She deserves...
