Kazimierz
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It is promising to see that even the smallest efforts within the artistic fields can help restore a greatly diminished living tradition of Catholic culture. We have been assailed by horrendous Catholic art and architechture, accompanied by such banal music from the infernal pit itself, all accompanying the dilution and perversion of the Catholic fatih.So in the effort to rebuild this culture, it is good to read that folk here begin with the classics, or at least works that have not been tainted by the forces of darkness.
From high Gothic cathedrals and good theology to churchs in the round and heresy and blasphemy.
From Gregorian Chant and sacred polyphony to ....and it makes the body and soul recoil at their sound.....try this for some audio torture
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/07/06/are-these-the-ten-worst-hymns-of-all-time/
Although time has not afforded it, I have tried writing short stories, poems, and maybe eventually a novel. Some await publication. Others, too many of them, are sill in the gestation stage.
Work and life ill afford the time and inspiration to complete, but may that time come soon.
I admire those who can draw and paint. I could never do well at these from practically the word get go.
But give me Beowulf, Chaucer and co, Shakespaw and co, a few good modern writers and I might produce a very egg of a piece but still Catholic. :-)
I enjoy satire and parody. and these saturate my works.
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| Posted Oct 21, 2012, 3:32 am |
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Anthony Benedict
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Kaz, see if you can pick up a book that's been in print for many years, titled, "Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain". Absolutely marvelous work. Its central argument is that folks of any age usually tend to draw only symbolically and do not learn how to sense space and proportion - the key to realistic portrayals on paper or canvas - unless they can break free of the conditioned "iconic" ( ie, stickman representations ) patterns they first learned as children.
In other words, anyone really can become a very capable draftsman by simply doing the exercises. The illustrations are amazing of how people of all ages drew, at first, and how amazingly lifelike their work became after applying themselves to learning "how to see" without their overly analytical habits getting in the way.
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| Posted Oct 23, 2012, 5:17 am |
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