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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Saint Musicians
To call someone a “Saint” means to say that that person lives (or lived) a life of Heroic Virtue. Virtue means an accumulation of good habits. Good habits are an accumulation of good actions. Good actions have to be practiced, just in the same way that your musical instrument has to be practiced. Repetition of good and [...]
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 [...]
