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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., is president emeritus of Georgetown University and director of mission at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA.
Rhyton in the form of a Centaur
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Alexander the Great created a new world of encounter and multiplicity.
“Color Panels for a Large Wall,” by Ellsworth Kelly, 1978
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Kelly’s work abstracted from visual experience only to return us to it.
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
It is the birth the artists paint, not the incarnation as such.
Panel 1: “During the World War there was a great migration North by Southern Negroes,” by Jacob Lawrence.
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
The migration paintings of Jacob Lawrence
“Nessun Dorma” (2013), Rome
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Timothy J. Clark’s poetic realism
St. John the Evangelist (1408–15), by Donatello
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Donatello crosses the Atlantic
"Portrait of Edith Schiele, The Artist's Wife," 1915 (Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands)
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
The artist dying young is one of the founding myths of 20th century Modernism. A. E. Houseman celebrated the athlete dying young. In England Wilfred Owen became the icon of the poet giving his life for his country. August Macke and Franz Marc, lost at the front in the Great War, had been radiant hop
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
How to choose from the bountiful treasury of images awaiting our contemplation (and sheer delight) in this darkening season before Christmas? Do you prefer Netherlandish precision and detail? Italian tenderness and warmth? The classical proportions and palette of Poussin? The transcendent simplicity
“A View of Toledo,” by El Greco, ca. 1598-99
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
Celebrating El Greco
“Watchtower (Hochsitz),” by Sigmar Polke, 1984
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Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.
“Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963–2010" is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through Aug. 3.