Sunday, July 28, 2013
Artists of evolutionary realism
The artists of evolutionary realism will have the story, history, philosophy, and
religious structure of the material evolution of life on earth to Godhood in
the cosmos. This is the new iconology. Modernist art, now collapsed,
and postmodern art, going nowhere, had no story, no history, nothing
but the individual sensations and conceptions of individual artists
who nevertheless conformed to the anarchy and nihilism of the times,
while rejecting realist art and rejecting the moral imagination in
art which Burke and Kirk affirmed.
There has been a beginning
in the “classical realism” promoted by the American Arts
quarterly, but the artists are need to find a more profound subject for our evolutionary age.
Great art has always been based in the affirmation of the sacred.
Human history is not enough, sacredness is required. Sacred evolution is the
channel of the narration. The ordered material evolution of life on earth to
Godhood in the cosmos provides the change needed within conservatism.
Godhood is a distant goal but it is possible to better see and
affirm the distant ideal through art.
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