Can art save souls?

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_huckelberry
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Re: Can art save souls?

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Blixa wrote:About the week before I moved from Utah to go east for grad school, I was in the old Cosmic Aeroplane bookstore. I found a photography book of portraits of residents in the fabled Chelsea Hotel. One woman's image caught my eye: she was probably in her early 40's and she sported a crew cut with one lacquered spit curl pasted on her forehead.

Not long after I got to New York, I drove down to New York City with some friends. My first stop was the Museum of Modern Art to see Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. There it was! I was finally seeing it! But I wasn't viewing it alone for there looking at it, too, was the woman with the spit curl crew cut.

Blixa, I enjoyed your demonstration that there is an art, with all its imagination and invention, which happens in the act of experiencing art.
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_ludwigm
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Re: Can art save souls?

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anybody wrote:... inner beauty ...
ludwigm wrote:Inner beauty can be earned only by hard work. By learning, been educating...
Hoops wrote:I couldn't disagree more.
I don't wonder.



Hoops wrote: the essence of being Christian
I know no such thing.



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1. "I can pass nothing except my essence."
2. "I only render what is in my nature."
3. "The fruit of mine own nature, nought beside Can I give Thee;"
(Blixa may know what I am talking about...)

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- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
_Hoops
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Re: Can art save souls?

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ludwigm wrote:
anybody wrote:... inner beauty ...
ludwigm wrote:Inner beauty can be earned only by hard work. By learning, been educating...
Hoops wrote:I couldn't disagree more.
I don't wonder.



Hoops wrote: the essence of being Christian
I know no such thing.



_________________
1. "I can pass nothing except my essence."
2. "I only render what is in my nature."
3. "The fruit of mine own nature, nought beside Can I give Thee;"
(Blixa may know what I am talking about...)

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so it would appear. thankfully, morley gets it
_zeezrom
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Re: Can art save souls?

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This is Morley, sitting next to the Holy Ghost.

ImageIn the Louvre, by James Jacques-Joseph Tissot, 1883-1885
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

The Holy Sacrament.
_Blixa
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Re: Can art save souls?

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ludwigm wrote:_________________
1. "I can pass nothing except my essence."
2. "I only render what is in my nature."
3. "The fruit of mine own nature, nought beside Can I give Thee;"
(Blixa may know what I am talking about...)



Yes.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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Re: Can art save souls?

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zeezrom wrote:This is Morley, sitting next to the Holy Ghost.

ImageIn the Louvre, by James Jacques-Joseph Tissot, 1883-1885


Indeed.
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