Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube.com Friends, in October 2024, I gave a lecture to the students at Charles University in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. My hosts arranged a marvelous tour of the city, and I was struck by its overwhelming beauty—a beauty so clearly connected to […]
Critique of Marcuse’s theory of “eros” and politics, in relation to “woke” culture’s love of ugliness (emphasizing Marcuse’s overlap with Adorno). To help the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/europos For expanded/written versions of videos: https://europos.substack.com/ Header image: Photo by Moises Gonzalez on Unsplash
Reprinted with permission. Watch this video about a new city designed from scratch in Guatemala called Cayala. It has been designed by two graduates of Notre Dame’s architecture school, according to the plan of Leon Krier. It explains the concepts behind it’s creation; how its beauty benefits rich and poor […]
Source: Margarita Mooney Suarez via comment.org. This article originally appeared on October 15th, 2021 in Comment, a publication ofCARDUS: www.cardus.ca. When I took a wrong turn while driving with students in Rhode Island in the summer of 2019, we found ourselves driving over a bridge clouded in fog, seemingly going […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org. Staggeringly beautiful Catholic sacred art and church architectural forms carved into the rock in an ancient salt mine in Poland by miners. Thank you to Phil Burgess for bringing to my attention these staggering pictures of a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near […]
Source: Margarita Mooney Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. The present time of crisis in higher education may tempt us away from pondering fundamental questions about the human person that are essential to understanding what education is all about. But educators should not fall prey to cultural or societal pessimism—it […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via youtube.com Friends, why is art important? An uptick in vandalism against famous pieces of art, calling to mind outbreaks of iconoclasm throughout history, has raised questions about art’s value and purpose. On today’s “Word on Fire Show,” I discuss with Brandon Vogt why art matters. […]
Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.orgReprinted with permission. I received an interesting email from my friend, artist James Gillick the other day. Jim, as some regular readers will know, is a Catholic artist who has managed to make a good living by selling his work to the secular market. This is […]
I recently had an interesting conversation with an architect who defined himself as a classicist with respect to aesthetics, art, and design. And he explained what he understood that to be in an interesting way. He said that a classicist is someone who believes that there is an ideal form to be realized in design. Whether that be in car, a building, a smartphone, or whatever. And this is consistent with Classical and medieval…
Charles Darwin once wrote that the sight of a male peacock’s tail made him physically ill. Why? Because he knew that the gratuitous beauty so prevalent throughout the living world points unmistakably to intelligent design, foresight and plan. Explore the artistry and stunning implications of natural colors, patterns, and ornamentation in the animal and plant kingdoms that exist for a purpose beyond mere survival.