S2E4 - Rembrandt is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey
In this episode of the Berean Bookclub we chat through Rembrandt is in the Wind by Russ Ramsey.
In this book Ramsey wants his readers to learn to love art through the eyes of faith. There is only one way in which he tries to do this: by showing that there is beauty in brokenness. Through ineradicable storytelling skills, he traces the lives and art of 9 different artists through the ages, showing how the brokenness of their lives, families, situations and selves produces art which points toward the beauty in God their art longs to capture. Along the way, he teaches us a way of engaging with art - of Christians and non-Christians - which helps us to deeply appreciate these masterpieces as part of our lives before the Lord. This makes it a book well suited for both the art novice and the critic.
In this episode we speak through neglecting the pursuit of beauty for pursuing what is true or good, how beauty is the application of goodness and truth, how there is beauty in brokenness, how brokenness points toward a beauty outside of itself, how our creativity is borrowed and dependent on one another, why we need one another to create, how Michelangelo's 'David' is a testimony to a decaying world and why vulnerability is necessary for beauty.