Join Alex Dimitrios of Space Commune (spacecommune.substack.com) to explore the dramatic clash between art and science in the 19th century as we explore the worlds of Frederic Church and Charles Darwin as they took two divergent paths from the work of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. This presentation delves into how Church, a master…
Category: Visual Arts
From Louis XIV to The Ballet Russe: How the world renaissance was hijacked by Apollo
Join us as we dive into the history of Art featuring guest speaker Nicholas Jones (RTF Advisor and President of Artists Alliance for Africa) https://www.artistsallianceforafrica…. Using the figures who have fought for the souls of our world, we present a dramatic history of the events that have sculpted our world today. The battle for the…
Cultural Warfare and the American Revolution (Franklin, West and Morse Revisited)
In this lecture delivered as part of the Rising Tide Foundation series “Towards an Age of Creative Reason”, Matthew Ehret introduces the fight to establish a cultural revolution in the arts and sciences initiated by Benjamin Franklin, and a small international network of co-conspirators of the 18th century which was then understood to be the vital…
Symposium: Rediscovering the Infinite Through Classical Art
The Rising Tide Foundation presents the Symposium: Rediscovering the Infinite Through Classical Art, which opened with a presentation by Cynthia Chung on Shakespeare and the use of tragedy in elevating an audience’s knowledge of human nature in order to break free from tragic dynamics within us. This was followed by a lecture delivered by Matthew…
Sparks of a New Renaissance in Painting Emerge from China
By Matthew Ehret It is rare to see new artistic movements arise. It is even rarer that such artistic revolutions manage to respect the best traditions of the past while at the same time infuse something new and improved into society. The fatal error made by many innovators attempting to break with the often stultifying…
Virgil or Aristotle… Who is Contemplating the Bust of Homer?
By Gerald Therrien One of Rembrandt’s greatest paintings is known by some people as ‘Aristotle contemplating the Bust of Homer’. Since no surviving records exist from either Rembrandt’s hand nor the patron who commissioned this masterpiece in 1653 AD, speculation has run rampant for over 350 years as to the true identity of the mysterious…
Cultural Warfare and the American Revolution (Franklin, Benjamin West and S.B Morse Revisited)
Did you know that the leading painter of England during the American Revolution (who also served as President of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts) was a Philadelphian republican ally of Benjamin Franklin named Benjamin West? Did you know that a renaissance movement uniting arts and sciences was what made both the American revolution possible…
Why Must Aesthetics Govern A Society Worthy Of Political Freedom? Ask the CIA
By Matthew Ehret In the mid-1990s, a series of exposés featured on the London Independent and elsewhere brought a dark secret to light. Many were startled by the revelation that the entire evolution of 20th century modern art was directed in large measure by the CIA! This not only included the direct financing of abstract painters like Jackson Pollock…
Unifying Spirit between East and West: Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), Italian Renaissance painter in the Forbidden City.
By Matthew Ehret “In pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative, we should ensure that when it comes to different civilizations, exchange will replace estrangement, mutual learning will replace clashes, and coexistence will replace a sense of superiority. This will boost mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual trust among different countries” -Xi Jinping, Belt and Road…
How the Hudson River School of Canadian Painting was Derailed
At a historical inflection point during the American Civil War, it was uncertain what Canada would become… would we become an independent republic, or a part of Lincoln’s America or would we remain a Northern anti-American confederacy under British control? (Britain’s other confederacy did fail in 1865 after all). Nowhere was this battle over our…