This is a wonderful book - the first comprehensive account of the life and work of John Piper, including many of the overlooked tributaries into whic
Georges Rouault Christ on the Cross
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In one of Rouault’s crucifixion scenes, painted around 1920, the dark is one again a fundamental feature. The Crucifixion could almost be taking pl
Henry Moore
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Radical, experimental and avant-garde, Henry Moore (1898–1986) was one of Britain's greatest artists. This exhibition at Tate Britain takes a f
St Helens Cross Kelloe
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This extraordinary piece of English Romanesque Art played a very significant part of my spiritual nurture. It is located in the Norman Church where m
The Supper at Emmaus, By Caravaggio
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The moment when the disciples recognize the stranger in the midst as the risen Christ is show in a dramatic way, with arms outstretched and astonish
Accessing the spiritual?
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The tourist season has certainly started here and its worth pausing to consider the lure of these buildings:
Painting and sculpture, music and drama,
Energy Art Movement
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Chicago's cultural scene is soon to be energized by the most unusual art
movement to date, emerging from across the globe - the Energy Art Movement.
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
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Quelle est cette odeur agréable,
Bergers, qui ravit tous nos sens?
S’exhale-t’il rien de semblable
Au milieu des fleurs du printemps?
Quelle
Craigie Aitchison
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One of my favourite artists died this week - a painter who was an outstanding colourist. Here is his obituary from the Times:
Craigie Aitchison was
Christ the King
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Today the cycle of the Churches year ends as we commemorate and celebrate Christ the King.
Here are some prayers and images -
Almighty and merciful
Futurism
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Thanks to the generosity of friends in Solihull I have membership of the Tate and was glad to escape from the pressures of work to see the exhib
On the need for Perspective
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One of my favourite pastimes is looking at paintings. There are two great dangers when looking at paintings. The first danger is that of being too c
Relational Aesthetics
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FOR EVIDENCE OF ART'S recent love affair with "interactivity" and "connectivity," one need look no further than the pair of digital art surveys
Saying the Unsayable
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I have been offering some reflections on the exhibition that took place in Centenary Square last week here are some image to give you a glimpse of how
Compassion, attachments, love and connections
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Further pictures from the Saying the Unsayable exhibition.
We had a very large number of images to choose from to illustrate this theme and interesti
Change and Decay in all around I see?
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The world round us is in a constant process of change and movement. Familiar buildings come and go. Nothing that is built will last forever. These
Saying the Unsayable: Being Alive, hope and death
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The images here depict those aspects of living, dying, death that would not ordinarily be available for us to capture in our everyday lives here
Saying the Unsayable
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Over the next few days I want to share with you some reflections and pictures from an exhibition that will run in Centenary Square Birmingham from the
Barbara Hepworth
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My house in Windsor is slowly becoming my new home through a process of adaption and sorting. Key in all this are my pictures. I finally found the s
Pentecost
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Almighty God, who on this day
didst open the way of eternal life
to every race and nation
by the promised gift of thy Holy Spirit:
Shed abroad this