Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to…
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Kandinsky: A Vibration of the Soul
Wassily Kandinsky, considered by many as the father of abstract painting, was born on December 4, 1866 and died in the same month, 78 years later–December 13, 1944. Kandinsky was an art theorist, economist, lawyer, teacher and artist. I submit that December is a fine time to honor one of the most influential 20th century…
De Stijl: Form, Color and Utopia
I have been a huge fan of the De Stijl movement since the first time I gazed at a Mondrian painting. Similar to Russian Constructivism, I certainly catch glimpses of and feel momentary kinship with these artist’s desire to embody Utopian beauty, spiritual harmony and order in total abstraction and universality by reducing art down…