Can All in Art be One?
Egon Schiele, Embrace (1912) Watercolor on paper.
If new visitors to EPPH wonder how landscapes, still-lifes, portraits and scenes of battle can all have a single theme, think not whether the wide variety of art can really be a single subject but whether the proposed subject, a view of the soul or self, can result in such variety.
“A great thing is the soul", wrote the great theologian St. Bonaventure (1221-1274), "in the soul the whole world can be delineated.”1
And so it has been.
1, Christopher Cullen, Bonaventure, (Oxford University Press) 2006, p. 59
Posted 15 Nov 2013: Schiele, EgonInner TraditionReligionTheory
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