"although if they actually began to paint orthodox icons, they could no longer call themselves Modern artists" You may want to have a look at the work of Adam Neate
http://www.elmslesters.co.uk/index.php?pid=13&subid=26 http://www.artnet.com/ag/fulltextsearch.asp?searchstring=Adam+Neate He has done some work that focuses on this. On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Chris Miller <[email protected]>wrote: > "Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival > - > but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and > survival of his consciousness" > > > This is one of Rand's notions that Sciabarra ("Ayn Rand: The Russian > Radical") > would probably source to Nikolai Lossky and the distinctly Russian > conflation > of intense spirituality with scientific explanation - as also reflected by > Stalin's notion of the writer as the "engineer of the human soul" > > So it's no surprise that is shared by Boris, who comes from a Russian > education, and is still attached to the visual expression of the Russian > avant garde of that period. > > And so am I -- not as an artist -- but as an aesthete who enjoys it, and > who > may be the only non-Ukrainian to regularly visits the Ukrainian Institute > of > Modern Art here in Chicago. > > But I do notice that a more religious, i.e. Orthodox Christian, expression > of > spirituality seems ever closer to emerging from the work of the living > exponents of that tradition. (although if they actually began to paint > orthodox icons, they could no longer call themselves Modern artists) > > My problem with it is that there is no way to prove or disprove that "Art > is > inextricably tied to man's survival" (so as science, it fails) -- and > within > a critical discussion of art, it's a conversation stopper. Have you ever > tried to account for the survival of your own consciousness? > > Substitute "my survival" for "man's survival", and Ayn is telling us that > she > desperately needs a connection to certain works of art (mostly by Victor > Hugo) -- and the consequence of the desperation of that connection, is the > extreme narrowness of her taste. > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click now and find the cable accessories you've been looking for! > > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXqhsIxMaFKzWnrPMA6OHc4n > 0DKAarlvrPnKQvDOiJsNP7zke0bbK/
