Monday, March 26, 2012

Now and Zen

Tricycle Magazine recently published a noteworthy article on why the relationship between Zen and art is neither as simple nor as obvious as the cliche of "Zen and the Art of [insert any topic]" implies.

"We know, equally, that Leonardo da Vinci was operating within a Christian context, but the fact that he painted The Last Supper doesn’t inspire us to value his art primarily for some abstracted notion of Christianity."

Read more here.

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