Since I haven’t written anything in a LONG while…I thought I would open up a little mini-discussion around my Senior Thesis: “Let The Painter Preach.” This was written almost 5 years ago, before I entered the–ehem “real world,” but for the most part, I think this is still quite in line with my views and beliefs.
Here is a sample to whet your appetite (or completely turn you off):
Flannery O’Conner defined art this way: “The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. The person who aims after art in his work aims after truth.”. An archer aims an arrow at his target. Whether he hits it or not, he is ultimately striving to hit the bull’s-eye. In the same way, an artist strives for truth. As he expresses something from deep inside of himself, he is searching for truth.
Augustine said, “When I search for truth, and I arrive at truth, I find God.” If truth existed outside of God, he would not be God. So then, any search for ultimate truth will be found only in an ultimate God.
Art is the search for God.
So here you go, the culmination of my college education at Azusa Pacifc University:
by Craig Key.
PS My mom was quick to point our there are some Type-o’s in there. Sorry mom. I still graduated.