Topics in this video include:
- Introduction of David Clayton as an artist, author, and professor who is working on a new book about transforming American culture through beauty.
- Discussion of the definition of culture as an emergent pattern of human behavior and activity that reflects a society's core priorities and practices. Art and music play a fundamental role.
- Explanation of how principles of mathematical harmony and proportion are central to creating beautiful art and architecture. Examples given of buildings in Annapolis.
- Insight into how studying icons helped a seminary student better understand and connect to sacred spaces he visited in Israel.
- Perspective that beauty attracts us and can lead us to contemplation of God. It has an invitational and confrontational nature
- Conversation about evaluating standards of beauty over time through tradition, rather than arbitrary elites.
- Information about David's upcoming book on art for the sacred feasts of the Roman Rite, providing images and explanation to help guide contemporary artists.
- Discussion of the process of making sacred art and David's vision for reviving American culture through reconnecting with tradition.
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Be sure to watch all the videos from Scala's 2023 conference "Art, The Sacred, and the Common Good," as well as two videos recorded in studio with Jonathan Pageau and Aidan Hart:
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David Clayton writes on beauty, art and culture on his blog The Way of Beauty, Scala's blog and the New Liturgical Movement:
www.thewayofbeauty.org/blog
scalafoundation.org/blog/
www.newliturgicalmovement.org/
Margarita Mooney Clayton is the author of The Wounds of Beauty: Seven Dialogues on Art and Education.
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