Types & Tropes: more reflections on beauty, truth, and evil in human creativity

See also my blog essay, “The Beauty of the Lord.” The poet W.H. Auden identified several dilemmas the modern world-ethos has created for us and the contemporary artist, summarized as follows:[1]  The loss of belief in the endurance of the physical universe. The artist has no confidence that what he makes will endure. The loss …

The Beauty of the Lord: the good, the evil, and the ugly

“. . .  that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD.” Ps 27:4 “From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth." Ps 50:2 See pdf version here Beauty of the LORD, the good, evil, and ugly by Stephen Hague) Contents …

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 …