Auto-mobile: metaphor for our times

Autophor Whatever happened to the cars with character their quirky creativity of over-drawn hood ornaments and peculiar fins and wood panels on the Woodies with runner-boards and superfluous wind obstructing shapes and sizes flamboyant colors excessive lengths and chrome with little practicality and no obsession to appear professional conformed to a gray compact business-like concept …

On Painting Children

On Painting Children (according to Benedict Rubbra) In painting look for the center of each shape and push your color outwards. Describe it. Then fill it in. Find where the plane changes direction, since contour is the change of plane. To make a portrait alive, it is important to try to capture a feeling of …

Jesus weeps over and then returns to Jerusalem

Jesus’ triumphal entry: JERUSALEM, Sunday, Mt 21:1-11; Mk 11:1-10; Lk 19:29-44; Jn 12:12-19 (OT prophecy: Isa 62:11; Zech 9:9) (left) Albrecht Durer, Christ returns to Jerusalem Mt 21:1–11 (NASB95) When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into …

Jesus’ Temptation and the Old Testament

Setting: the DESERT OF JUDEA, autumn, A.D. 27 (Mt 4:1-11; Mk l:12-13: Lk 4:1-13) (below) The Temptation of Christ (Bartsch 41, New Hollstein 41, National Gallery Lucas van Leyden 67, Lavalleye 107). Mt 4:1-11 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days …

Chronology and harmony in the ancient Gospel testimonies answering the question, “Who is Jesus?”

Credible harmonization of the Gospel narratives is possible, even if not perfect in every single incidence, since each author had particular purposes and audiences that influenced their organization of the material. Because we cannot always be perfectly satisfied that the accounts are completely harmonized, it does not mean we cannot get a sufficient grasp of …