To bring the old year to an end and begin the new one with an artistic flourish, I'm adding a quartet of Nativity scenes by international artmakers in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection to the "Before the Marvel of This Night" gallery of the Themes of Faith section. They range from a modern-day example of an ancient Asian craft…
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As we prepare for the season of Advent, my art selections for November depict the Annunciation, the prequel to the Christmas story, when the Angel Gabriel appears to the Virgin Mary in the first chapter of Luke to tell her she has been chosen by God to be the mother of the Messiah. This trio of artworks by international…
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This month, I'm featuring a second set of artworks in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection by Nicaraguan Artist Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz from the traveling exhibition, The Bible in Nicaraguan Primitivista Art. This new series of twelve images illustrate stories from the New Testament, beginning with the Annunciation through the Second Coming of Christ. The paintings can be found in…
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During the next two months I'll be presenting new artworks from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection by Nicaraguan Artist Jose Ignacio Fletes Cruz, whose biblical illustrations will be featured in the traveling exhibition, The Bible in Nicaraguan Primitivista Art, which I hope to launch in the near future. Fletes Cruz's naif style of Primitivista image-making is associated with a…
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Whatever their point-of-view on the current Middle East crisis, no one should remain indifferent to the images of starving children coming out of the Gaza Strip--whether they be five or five thousand. The suffering of these innocent victims of war should prick the conscience of the world and prompt people of goodwill to alleviate the humanitarian crisis. Roman Catholic…
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The Sacred Art Pilgrim is taking time off to
"cultivate his garden" and will be back
on-line in August.
Have a good summer!
Voltaire: "Cultivate Your Garden" by Carl Dixon
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May is the month dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In this present troubling--and for many traumatic--time, I've selected a quartet of images by international women artists in the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection showing a solitary, contemplative Mother of Christ, who, we know from the New Testament nativity narratives, came to understand the dramatic events of her life by "pondering…
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The image of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of the crucified Jesus known as Pieta (“pity” in Italian) is a sacred art motif transcending ethnic, religious, political, social, and cultural boundaries. You would have to have a heart of stone not to feel empathy and compassion for a mother mourning the death of her only son—especially when he…
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At a time when empathy for others is in short supply, my thoughts turn to Christ's Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus and the great reversal at the end of the story where the selfish big-spender finds himself tormented after death in Hades, while the poor man of the street is comforted in the Bosom of Abraham, the…
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