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Folk Art of the Saints and Children’s Portraits
I just created and published a personal art portfoilio for my sister, Celeste Ingraffia, at www.ingraffia.com.
For the past decade, Celeste has been selflessly nourishing the right brains of children in Austin, Texas, and that city, I know will begin to see a growth in it’s reputation for the visual arts, in part due to Celeste’s [...]
Time for Artistic Renewal
The time for for renewing our culture into one of light and life via new intellectual and artistic paradigms has never been so ripe as it is today. Communication on a worldwide level is so simple now. The Internet, for one, is a tool that can possibly assist in bringing us closer. In every region, city, [...]
G.K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton was an English convert to Catholicism in the early 1900’s. His writing is delightful and extremely orthodox. He covers many genres including fiction, philosophy, history, and social commentary. One of his better known works is a series of mystery stories about a priest named Father Brown.
Chesterton’s essays and stories will educate your Christian [...]
Being vs. Making
Being a good person and making good art are two different goals. You can be a good person who makes lousy art, or you can be a sinful person who makes aesthetically pleasing art. These two goals are governed by two different virtues: The Virtue of Prudence and the Virtue of Art.
A person who posesses [...]
Jacques Maritain
Jacques Maritain was a great Catholic philosopher of art. Here is a good quote from his work titled “Art and Scholasticism.” You can find the whole document online, and if you like philosophy you should read it:
If you want to make a Christian work, then be Christian, and simply try to make a beautiful work, into [...]
Pope John Paul II’s Letter to Artists
A must-read for all Christian artists. Pope John Paul II wrote beautifully about the role of the artist in the world.