Monsignor Pope Ping!
Fang’s aunt is an old, old art teacher. She once boasted
that she had never seen a student she couldn’t teach to
paint. - I attended one of her classes and did a pastel
drawing of some buildings (flat buildings, not 3D).
She had to revise her declaration. I was the one non-artsy
fartsy member of that family she couldn’t teach to paint, or
draw. :o(
If art is intended to elevate us and open a line to God, what does the repulsive ant-art being produced today do? It’s only a celebration of ugliness, chaos, and ineptitude. From music that is little more than doggerel set to simplistic jungle rhythms, to sculpture that is cluttered collections of detritus, to paintings that are more janitorial than inspirational, art has been reduced to pedestrian mediocrity incapable of elevating anything but the artist’s bank balance.
I can draw and paint and I have since early childhood. What I have always wanted to do is to sing. I have no music able ability at all. When my son was 18 months old I was rocking him and singing, he put his hand over my mouth and said....sssshhhhh!
I can’t dance either.