Creation As Escape
AOA NEWS
By Ernest Britton
INDIANA - The act of creating art is sometimes considered an escape. Graham Greene said, "...Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition." Constrast that thought with those engaged in creating religious art, such as Orthodox painter Mother Catherine in Indianapolis. These artists consider it a form of prayer. What about the act of collecting religious art? Is it escape? Is it prayer? Is collecting itself, the creation of a work of art? I guess each of us will have to answer that for ourselves.
By Ernest Britton
INDIANA - The act of creating art is sometimes considered an escape. Graham Greene said, "...Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition." Constrast that thought with those engaged in creating religious art, such as Orthodox painter Mother Catherine in Indianapolis. These artists consider it a form of prayer. What about the act of collecting religious art? Is it escape? Is it prayer? Is collecting itself, the creation of a work of art? I guess each of us will have to answer that for ourselves.
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