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Prof. Gianfranco Rizzi
Artist and Professor of Painting
Head the Departement of Painting
Director of the Painting School at the Museum Albertina
Albertina National Accademy of Fine Arts
Institute of High Culture
Turin – ITALY
«Beauty will save the world » as Dostoevskij wrote. We have a wide confirmation of the previous sentence in the Orthodox Church Fathers’ philosophy, according to which beauty is the transfiguration of the beholder.
So, shall we worry? I think so.
What is making our society different is the fact that a sort of dissatisfaction or lack of attention towards beauty in every city, metropolis, or, even more, megalopolis, has been generating a Homo urbanus who does not want to be saved at all.
Hence, this man is totally bound to an age where secularization, nihilism, relativism play a dominant role.
Yet, the easiest way to get to moral autism is aesthetical illiteracy.
We are facing a very complex problem which, though it cannot be solved here, needs to be pointed out for it is a basic problem, as we hope to demonstrate.
Those who can hardly see, are not just unable to see beauty, but also problematic environmental conditions, never-ending and insane cement-manufacturing sort of process, poisoned waters, wheatear pollution and finally fired and torn apart forests.Yet, the easiest way to get to moral autism is aesthetical illiteracy.
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THE MEETING OF THE CULTURES
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CULTURE OF COSMOS
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