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The Most Beautiful Christmas Painting Contest

We are going to start publishing the most beautiful Christmas paintings on December 17th. 

Christmas is the time of enlightenment, inner warmth, and profound joy, and I particularly liked what T.S. Eliot said in “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees”. 

The child wonders at the Christmas Tree:
Let him continue in the spirit of wonder
At the Feast as an event not accepted as a pretext;
So that the glittering rapture, the amazement
Of the first-remembered Christmas Tree,
So that the surprises, delight in new possessions
(Each one with its peculiar and exciting smell),
The expectation of the goose or turkey
And the expected awe on its appearance,

Let’s start growing our Inventory of Light with the most beautiful Christmas paintings.

You can vote for your favorite in a comment below the articles, or on Facebook.

Thank you!

Illustration – Salvator Dali‘s striking Christmas design for ‘Vogue’ 1946. The best, in my opinion.

Belittle the desert

You neglect and belittle the desert.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.
T S Eliot (Choruses from The Rock)

Art – René Magritte

Poetry

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”

T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1912

Art by Francesco Lojacono.

“The cultivation of Christmas trees” from Brainpickings.org

“There are several attitudes towards Christmas, some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial…” – T.S. Eliot

In a rare gem of trailblazing vision from Brainpickings.org:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/24/t-s-eliots-the-cultivation-of-christmas-trees/