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Thoughts on Consecrated Life for Artists
Posted on 04/05/2012 | 2 CommentsThis week, we have seen how artists can apply monastic wisdom and techniques to their creative lives, as well as to their spiritual lives. By way of concluding the week, I would like to explore how monks and members of other... -
The Art Monastery: Monastic Technologies [Part Two]
Posted on 03/05/2012 | 6 CommentsNathan Rosquist continues his discussion of ‘open-source monasticism’ by sharing specific monastic ‘technologies’ used in the Art Monastery Project. -
The Art Monastery: Open-Source Monasticism [Part One]
Posted on 02/05/2012 | 2 CommentsNathan Rosquist, founder of the Art Monastery San Francisco, talks about using both Western and Eastern monasticism as ‘open-source software’ for artistic creation. -
Brush Stroked Incense: How Painting and Monks Taught Me to Pray
Posted on 01/05/2012 | 5 CommentsPreston Yancey, an incoming MLitt student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, offers a meditation on how the discipline of the Divine Office deepened his experience of painting as prayer. -
The Artist Begins Again and Again
Posted on 30/04/2012 | 13 CommentsChristine Valters Paintner, a Benedictine oblate and online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, shares wisdom for artists from the Desert Fathers and the Benedictine tradition. -
Art & Monasticism Symposium
Posted on 28/04/2012 | 3 CommentsNext week, Transpositions will be hosting an online symposium on Art and Monasticism. Historically, monasticism has been a fertile field for the cultivation of the visual arts, especially icons, as well as musical compositions, especially those designed to help with the... -
Beauty as Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
Posted on 27/04/2012 | 4 CommentsAccording to Hans Urs von Balthasar, in The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Seeing the Form, if theological aesthetics is about anything it is about beauty, and if beauty is about anything in particular it is...
