27-06-2025, 06:20 PM
My artist friend taught me some important value of genuine art, which can be as simple as child's drawing or as complicated as Rembrandt's Prodigal Son, as long as it serve a specific purpose and appeals to human senses.
The value of great art is in its symbolic message that is timeless and open to interpretation. Several decades ago, the world renowned Dutch spiritual writer Henri Nauen just discovered a new dimension of Rembrandt's paining, namely, that the Father had one female and one male hand, something the male-dominated religious societies are forgetting.
As my friend said, great art speaks from the heart and mind of the artist to the heart and mind to people, to each one as much as he or she is capable to understand. Sometimes, this communication is taking place on a subconscious level, so that even the author himself is not aware of the message he is transmitting.
This reminds me of the VM picture Rene Zandbergen chose for the front page of his book. I would be very interested to know why he chose that particular picture, since no flower in natural environment looks like that.
There are several clues how to interpret that picture, one of which being Koen's explanation of the picture in f28v, or f35r. Besides animals, flowers had important place in human history, in folk rituals and in prophesy. At the time of religious confusion this picture clearly tells us where to find the Truth.
The value of great art is in its symbolic message that is timeless and open to interpretation. Several decades ago, the world renowned Dutch spiritual writer Henri Nauen just discovered a new dimension of Rembrandt's paining, namely, that the Father had one female and one male hand, something the male-dominated religious societies are forgetting.
As my friend said, great art speaks from the heart and mind of the artist to the heart and mind to people, to each one as much as he or she is capable to understand. Sometimes, this communication is taking place on a subconscious level, so that even the author himself is not aware of the message he is transmitting.
This reminds me of the VM picture Rene Zandbergen chose for the front page of his book. I would be very interested to know why he chose that particular picture, since no flower in natural environment looks like that.
There are several clues how to interpret that picture, one of which being Koen's explanation of the picture in f28v, or f35r. Besides animals, flowers had important place in human history, in folk rituals and in prophesy. At the time of religious confusion this picture clearly tells us where to find the Truth.