Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World
Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are...
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By Karel Vereycken
- Feb 26
- 21 min
On the Track of the Sublime With Hieronymus Bosch
The following article is an edited version of a conference presentation at La Chapelle en Vercors, Spring 2002. “We are ravished by the...
By Karel Vereycken
- Jan 28
- 6 min
Remarks on Chinese Painting and Its Influence on the West
For more on the artistic dialogue between Eastern and Western masters, see "Climbing the Alps: The Vision of Ezra Pound." Between 700 to...
By Adam Sedia
- Apr 29, 2023
- 16 min
Francisco de Goya: Master Critic of the Human Condition
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of Spain’s best known painters. Heir to the tradition of El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo,...
By Mathew Ehret
- Feb 9, 2023
- 9 min
Norman Rockwell & the Rediscovery of America’s Moral Compass
A great poet once said that you can judge a nation by how it honors (or fails to honor) its artists. In many ways, the soul of a nation...
By Karel Vereycken
- Aug 9, 2022
- 16 min
Van Eyck: True Beauty, a Foretaste of Divine Wisdom
Jan Van Eyck (1390-1441). How might we grasp the intention of this great Flemish painter, despite the five hundred years separating us?...
By Mathew Ehret
- Nov 20, 2021
- 7 min
Why Aesthetics Must Govern A Society Worthy Of Political Freedom? Ask the CIA
In the mid-1990s, a series of exposés featured on the London Independent and elsewhere brought a dark secret to light. Many were startled...
By Karel Vereycken
- Sep 24, 2021
- 9 min
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter of Movement
The impact of Leonardo’s artwork on us today reproduces an effect which he himself experienced when looking at the opening of a dark...
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