Photo Credit:Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller The Italian painter Caravaggio, whose name has become synonymous with the chiaroscuro technique, seemed to live as dramatically and exploratively as he painted—life as a constant balancing act between opposites, between light and dark.
Photo Credit:William Merritt Chase, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain As much as human life is torn between good and evil, between beauty and ugliness, we must, as a condition of life, learn to distinguish one from the other.
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Takimag Ticks and Birds In the dualist struggle between beauty and ugliness, ugliness seems to be getting the better of it. TakiMag You don’t have to be a full-blown Zoroastrian or Manichaean to notice that good and bad are in constant conflict in this world. In like fashion, so are beauty and ugliness. In neither case is a full and final victory to be expected in the conflict. As far as evil is concerned, there is a distinction to be made between the natural variety and the man-made kind. No doubt the distinction is not absolutely categorical, insofar as, with proper provision, mankind can protect itself (to some degree)…Open