Artists of evolutionary realism (from the archive)

I think that the artists of evolutionary realism will have the story, history, philosophy, and religious structure of the material evolution of life on earth to ascending levels of 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 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 ascending levels of 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---politics enters there.