STEALING BEAUTY

Increasingly, art is becoming either so esoteric as to be irrelevant or so commercial as to be reduced to a consumer commodity. But we can recover the foundation for true aesthetics | Gene Edward Veith

Christians, it is often said, are not interested in the arts. The same can be said of most ordinary Americans, who want to leave that sort of thing to the elite culture, to the upper-class patrons of the galleries and museums. But even those who profess no interest in the arts watch TV, go to the movies, listen to music, go shopping, and live in a cultural environment saturated with design and aesthetics.

Artists are the makers of culture. They express their worldviews in ways that shape the worldviews of others. Because they specialize in making their expressions appealing, their visions and values are uniquely persuasive to others. Their works are artifacts that embody the ideas, the emotions, and the philosophies of their time.