Not exact matches
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss
of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his
vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian
vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence
of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion
of sex as the most immediate epiphany
of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role
of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian
vision of the total kenotic movement
of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric
of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian
vision of the full
identity of Jesus with the individual
human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator
of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only
vision of a total cosmic reversal
of history.
It will be much harder to do that in the future unless the college administration reverses its present course, calls the faculty and students who have been brutalizing Professor Esolen to order, and reaffirms Providence College's commitment to genuine academic freedom and to a Catholic
vision of the
human person that challenges the tribalism and
identity politics eroding our culture and our politics.
We need a
vision whereby the very
identity of Christ, in his
human and divine natures, as the physical and spiritual centre and fulfilment
of creation, is the basis
of his active redemption
of us since sin.
As the
human nature
of Christ is the perfect image, in the Son
of Man,
of our own
identity and holiness, our wholeness in body and soul through God, so in the order
of the spiritual soul, the Divine Being itself, as pure and perfect spirit, is the mirror image
of our spiritual perfection, now and unto the beatific
vision.
This
vision draws out the very semantic
of the fundamental concepts
of identity and distinction from this undeniable, primary fact, that the
human subject exists in a complimentary environment.
Shapeless
human characters distort into anthropomorphic shadows
of the other self;
identities lost in translation from the past to the contemporary, and abstract lines and bold strokes
of contrasting hues intersect, creating a layered configuration
of Cissé's mythical
visions.
Kim's work explores the history
of abstract painting, the problems
of color and
vision, and issues
of human identity and existence.
With their individual
identities subsumed into this
vision of animate sculpture, the artists became representations
of the universal
human condition, a central theme in their work.
We will contemplate the world in which conflicting concepts and phenomena are intricately intertwined and constantly in flux, the nature
of identity and diversity, and how the courage, imagination and creativity
of human beings can be used to derive a new
vision and ground design for the future when our future remains uncertain.
Co-Curator
of Martin Wong:
Human Instamatic Serigo Bessa will moderate a discussion between Arnaldo Cruz - Malave, Chris «Daze» Ellis, Yasmín Ramírez, and John Yau, exploring Wong's self - identification as a Chino - Latino and how that hybrid
identity fostered his
vision of America.