Coloring Our Stories

Personally I try to avoid the subject of war, and some have said that’s sticking my head in the sand.

However the title “The Role of Art in a Time of War” washed away the sand enough for me to wholeheartedly resonate with the observations put forth in this article about how insufferable life would be without art.

Through art we establish similarities between past and future, near and far, abstract and concrete, that cast received certainties into doubt. We look and listen in a way that lets thinking and feeling run parallel to each other. And in extreme times, this sort of cultural appreciation can rise from an analytical to a moral plane. If we pay close attention — a task made harder with every meme-burst and iPhone rollout — art and literature and music can endow us with improved faculties to see our new present as something more than a stream of words and images.
- From the New York Times article “The Role of Art in a Time of War”

And the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) remain timeless until
the end of time . . .

See Rubens painting “The Consequences of War” and read The Role of Art in a Time of War HERE