The art world is filled with contradiction. De Botton and Armstrong propose three critical steps to overcoming our defensiveness round artwork: First, acknowledging the strangeness we feel and being gentle on ourselves for feeling it, recognizing that it’s fully pure — in spite of everything, a lot art comes from people with worldviews radically different from, and sometimes contradictory to, our personal; second, making ourselves familiar and thus extra at dwelling with the very minds who created that alien art; finally, looking for points of reference to the artist, nevertheless fragile and initially tenuous,†so we are able to relate to the work that sprang from the context of their life with the personal reality of our personal context.
The Fellowcraft Diploma commends Freemasons to review the Liberal Arts and Sciences, that are grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. That is the knowledge of the outdated man, your grandmother or the priest who has learned from scriptures, books or his life experiences.
Seven quality ideas have been developed on account of close collaboration between the Arts Council England and arts and cultural organisations that work with youngsters and young people. Being a night owl, I noticed, I still …
