This essay originally appeared in SEEN Journal (XV.1) – Landscape
[http://civa.org/resources/civa-publications/seen-journal/seen-journal-xv-1-landscape/]
, a publication by Christians in the Visual Arts.
In the film Paterson [https://www.youtube.com/
On view at: The Musée de l’Orangerie
[http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en/event/american-painting-1930s], Paris until
January 30th 2017, then Royal Academy of the Arts
[https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/america-after-the-fall]
Gordon College’s Dr. John Skillen is a rare sort of academic: the kind with road
dust on his shoes instead of chalk dust on his elbow patches. As he explains in
the
Perhaps you’re familiar with Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, the ones that
art
critic Craig Brown (a contemporary of Pollock) called “decorative ‘wallpaper.
[http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/abstractexpressionism/]‘” I
understand the
When art lovers think of the southwest, images likes Georgia OKeeffe’s
landscapes come to mind: the New Mexican desert, the bones and the flowers and
the vistas where she lived for over
