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"A palette taken from...the poetic readings of T.S. Elliot and Mary Oliver...Father Moore's art is about creating silence..."
Father Bill Moore SS.CC. - Contemporary American Artist (http://www.frbillmoore.com/artist.htm - broken link)
June would talk to this guy in a heartbeat. She suspects that this is one very interesting and intriguing priest. --Can't go wrong with T.S. Elliot, Mary Oliver, art, and silence!
"A palette taken from...the poetic readings of T.S. Elliot and Mary Oliver...Father Moore's art is about creating silence..."
Father Bill Moore SS.CC. - Contemporary American Artist (http://www.frbillmoore.com/artist.htm - broken link)
June would talk to this guy in a heartbeat. She suspects that this is one very interesting and intriguing priest. --Can't go wrong with T.S. Elliot, Mary Oliver, art, and silence!
I agree, this is very interesting. Looking initially at some of his paintings they remind me somewhat of Rauschenberg, the only abstract artist apart from Anselm Kieffer whose work has ever had any effect on me--and it's always a "spiritual" effect (especially with Rauschenberg) even though I don't really understand abstract art.
This article "The Cult of Ugliness in America" was written by a priest, Fr. Brankin, who is also an artist and art historian. I first read it several months ago and thought it was very interesting:
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Our talk will be divided into three parts: We shall first try to understand what has always been traditionally understood by the use of the word “beautiful” by most people in most eras, and in fact, how traditional Catholic philosophy was able to sort out that traditional understanding of beauty into an actual set of principles, the violation of which would yield ugliness.
Secondly, we shall try to situate these understandings of beauty and ugliness in the context of culture — or cult or faith — to see how beauty and ugliness flow naturally into the world from the content or emptiness of the soul.
Thirdly, we will make some personal resolutions, which we hope would take us a long way towards the destruction of this Cult of the Ugly.
I agree, this is very interesting. Looking initially at some of his paintings they remind me somewhat of Rauschenberg, the only abstract artist apart from Anselm Kieffer whose work has ever had any effect on me--and it's always a "spiritual" effect (especially with Rauschenberg) even though I don't really understand abstract art.
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