Tag: Imago
Tragedy and Comedy
I have been thinking recently about tragedy and comedy. These two staples of the literary world are often spoken of but not always understood. I know I don’t understand them very well but I am ... Read More
Out With the Felt Banners and Macrame Fish!
So often I hear, “a church should look like a church”, or “why do new churches always look like barns”, or “why are they trying to act like a church-in-the round in a cruciform shaped bu... Read More
Painting People – Artist Bernard Racicot
The human face is invariably a compelling subject matter for art. What we see in the human visage can generate a wide range of emotions, and open us to fresh understanding of ourselves and of othe... Read More
imago’s 40th Anniversary – Feedback
On Friday November 2nd Imago hosted a full house at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio. This 40th anniversary celebration included a variety of performing artists as well as visual artists. In my prepa... Read More
Sound and Sight
Works that have been published on art and faith in recent decades generally attend more to the visual arts than to other art forms. Accounting for why this is so is may be more complex than... Read More
Servantship
Matt Cupido has worked in several Canadian locations since emigrating from his native Holland. His journey of faith is deeply woven into his work. Some of his work takes the form of an icon, wher... Read More
Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age
Author – Gregory Wolfe, Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2011. (266 pp.) After several decades of exile from conversations about art “beauty is back”. It has become a focus for di... Read More
Flames Of Affection, Tongues Of Flame
I walked to the end of Dundurn Street, to the quiet hind of a busy road, where the bus loops. I walked to the foot of the escarpment and looked up, way, way up, at all those stairs. And though they ar... Read More