Is Art Passe in an Age Of Relativism?

By Pastor Mike Gunn

“A world ends when its metaphor has died. An age becomes an age, all else beside, when sensuous poets in their pride invent emblems for the soul’s consent that speak the meanings men will never know, but man-imagined images can show. It perishes when those images, though seen, no longer mean…”
Archibald MacLeish

I in no way consider myself an art critic. That would assume I actually knew a lot about art. But I do not feel one needs to have a degree in art to comment on its meaning (I’ll leave the aesthetics to those enlightened ones). Last night I went to the Seattle Art Museum to view Morris Grave’s abstract, realism and conscience bending exhibit. My own tastes draw me to the surreal and the abstract. I love Dali, and have his St. Johns of the Cross print hanging up in my living room. I’d have to say I wasn’t that impressed with the exhibit. I found myself drifting into two permanent displays filled with renaissance Christianity, and ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian art. I was fascinated. Read More