Featured Artist: Joel Sheesley
Joel Sheesley’s work embodies an ethic of love for his domestic and local environment. Each painting is a world seen through the eyes of…
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Spontaneous Performance Jesus Painting … huh?
I’ll admit it. I’m skeptical of live painting in churches. Like sticking a square peg in a round hole, it often makes for an…
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‘Looking to the Future: A Hopeful Subversion’ by Jeremy Begbie
Review of chapter 8 of For the Beauty of the Church, Edited by David O. Taylor. This is the final post in our series of…
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Featured Artist: Dayton Castleman
Dayton Castleman was born in New Orleans in 1975. He received his BA in Art from Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi and his MFA…
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‘How Art is a Gift, a Calling, and an Obedience’ by Andy Crouch
Review of Chapter 1 in For the Beauty of the Church. Transpositions is hosting reviews of each chapter of this book between Aug 2…
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Picasso’s Guernica: Propaganda, Art, or Revelation?
This post follows from recent discussions we have been having on the kind of role that human artistry may or may not play in…
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Featured Artist: Tim Lowly
Tim Lowly is an artist whose work I have admired for a long time. Here is some information that his website offers: Tim Lowly…
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The Wound and The Coyote: Joseph Beuys’ Spiritual Vision
If you come in a space with a big flame of fire you will get burnt, and you cannot say: ‘This is the symbol…
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The Worldview Behind the Work of Art: Five Cautionary Statements
Analysing a work of art by constructing a worldview that supposedly shapes the work of art or is embodied by the work of art…
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