James Patrick Reid, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About James Patrick Reid

James Patrick Reid is a painter who lives and works in New York City. He has taught painting, drawing and design at the State University of New York, the Art Students League, and the New York Academy of Art, and lectures frequently at other schools in New York and around the country. His essays have appeared in the journals American Arts Quarterly, Prosopon, and Seen, and the monograph Intimations of Paradise: Photographs by Christopher Burkett.

Art and the Transfiguration of the World

By James Patrick Reid|2019-05-07T14:42:17-05:00August 10th, 2017|Categories: Art, Beauty, Christianity, Culture|

Art can be a sort of sacrament of the visible, effecting in itself the transfiguration of the world, and manifesting this to transform our attentive senses, hearts, and minds… Art, like philosophy, begins with wonder. Nothing is so surprising as that things exist. Henri Matisse wrote: “One must know how to maintain childhood’s freshness upon [...]