Tag Archives: Art

Art That Doesn’t Tell Us What To Think Of It?

Joe Carter linked to this video at First Thoughts: It’s fascinating how the students react to this. One of them said, It’s your own interpretation. It’s not telling you what to think of it, it’s what you think of it. She ended that with a rather embarrassed-looking smile. I can’t help wondering what it mean. …

March 15, 2011 – 11:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Postmodernism/ Relativism | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

The Pleasure of Doing What’s Good For You

I was a trombone major as an undergrad, with an emphasis on classical music. We trombonists owe a lot to Beethoven: he was the first major composer to include trombones in “secular” music. You see, when Martin Luther translated the “last trumpet” (the signal for Christ’s return) in his German Bible, he called it instead …

August 23, 2008 – 7:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

“A souvenir from our homeland beyond the material world”

Via Amanda Witt and Wittingshire, a great post on the power and value of art on The Diary of a Former Atheist, including: All beauty and goodness has a living Source. In modern parlance, we call this source “God.” The closer we get to God, the closer we get to perfect joy. We have a …

April 22, 2008 – 3:15 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Tagged , , | Comments Off