Arts
Visiting artist calls for return to Catholic art
MAGGIE PAWSEY STAFF WRITER On April 23 in the Gentile Gallery, the Fine Arts department hosted artist Anthony Visco to illustrate and speak about the effects of Franciscan spirituality on renaissance-era sacred art, beginning at 7 p.m. Visco, a Catholic painter and sculptor, showed dozens of images to illustrate how St. Francis’s theology of the […]
Fine Arts Column: Acting—The math of the BA major
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST This very well may be the strangest concept I have ever thought: mathematics and the art of acting are parallels to each other in their respective areas. Now, I am aware that I am making quite a stretch with the following argument, so bear with me. I am starting to […]
Fine Arts Column: Major arts are all connected
PATRICIA VOIGT FINE ARTS COLUMNIST In doing some reading for my thesis, I stumbled across a portion of a lecture from the 1960’s in which the speaker goes into some comparisons of the seven major arts: poetry, sculpture, dance, painting, architecture, drama, and music. He says that he makes that distinction for any who are […]
The gifts of beauty and the arts
JEAN-MARIE BRALLEY COPY EDITOR A few weeks ago, Franciscan University was graced by the beautiful music of pianist and composer Eric Genuis. His concert was one of the most inspirational events I had experienced in a quite a while. Not only was his music exquisite, but he also shared so many profound thoughts about the […]