Comments on: Futurists & Spirituality

By: The Art Of The True Self | De Die In Diem

The Art Of The True Self | De Die In Diem — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:08:36 +0000

[...] Painter puts it beautifully: Images can echo the Divine, mirror them imperfectly. But I would still say a truer and deeper measure of a work of art’s spiritual nature, is to be found in the artist’s process, not the artist’s product. [...]

By: Painter of Blue

Painter of Blue — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:44:30 +0000

This is wonderful! Thanks for posting it. I’m ordering this book right away. I enjoyed look at your art work.

By: Jonathan Evens

Jonathan Evens — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:11:33 +0000

Your comments remind me of the distinctions that Sister Wendy Beckett made between religious, spiritual and sacred art in her book ‘Art and the Sacred’. She said that:

* religious art “is an iconic art, using the images specific to a religion” and standing or falling by “its ability to raise the mind and heart towards the truths of faith”;

* spiritual art “is only known by its personal power” and takes us into “a realm that is potentially open to us, we are made more than we are meant to be”;

* sacred art is “art that enables us to know, not by faith but by felt experience, that ‘we are continually there’, in Paradise.”