This is another good one from 1959:
*except for that one time at lunch…
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
According to Britannica “Maintaining her vow of poverty, she donated all her earnings to the Carmelite order.”
Sounds like a party! For me she represents a great art lover that seemed to be the norm long ago, perhaps pre-1971.
That’s amazing! Do you remember what you talked about?
This is a classic
There could be several reasons for this such as nepotism or lack of judgment, but the words that I’ve read on this subject have felt hollow when I could not find a living culture that was able to identify and support contemporary masterpieces.
Thanks for sharing! Something that has always struck me as odd or disturbing is that there are thousands of years worth of masterpieces to study, and yet whenever I see a contemporary Christian artwork presented as the next best thing, I find the choices to be extremely low quality! I can’t think of a single case where I agreed with the curator, no matter how well respected they are.
“A masterpiece gives form to the ideals of the particular epoch in which we live. Ideals can never be made immediately accessible to everyone. To be able to approach them, one must grow and develop spiritually. If the dialectical tension between the spiritual level of the masses and the ideals to which the artist bears witness disappears, it would simply mean that art had completely lost its purpose and function.”
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Detail of Yury Yarin’s Pantocrator (2019):
This is the most ambitious artwork that I’ve commissioned so far. It measures 24 square feet, or 22296.7 square centimeters (this is also roughly the amount of pieces used):
Just learned about this French foundry!
Really remarkable artist that I didn’t know about until around 2017!
This came very highly recommended: