Prose on The Culturium

Jul 22 2016

Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinematic Genius

Andrei Tarkovsky.
Photograph: Festival de Cine Africano de Córdoba, [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How Russian filmmaker turned movie making into transcendental art

Jul 15 2016

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

Eugene Delacroix, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a Roman emperor stirred the hearts and minds of his people

Jul 01 2016

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Leo Tolstoy.
Photograph: [Public Domain]
Wikimedia Commons

How the fear of dying becomes a gateway to the joy of living

Jun 10 2016

Plato: Phaedrus and the Charioteer

Raphael, The School of Athens, [Plato and Aristotle].
Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

How the ancients’ love of chariot racing became a metaphor for the human condition

May 27 2016

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The joys of the reclusive life

Apr 22 2016

William Blake: All Religions Are One

William Blake, Elohim Creating Adam.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The art of the poetic genius

Mar 25 2016

Paula Marvelly: Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet

Paula Marvelly, Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Laghet.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

In search of the miraculous

Mar 11 2016

Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Vassily Kandinsky, Composition IV.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

A creed to the creative life

Feb 05 2016

Greg Goode: Gatsby and Gestalt Shifts

F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Photograph: The World’s Work,
[Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

An appreciation of spirituality and literature