This I read in Welcome to the party. I copy instead of link because I thought it good and hard to read because there . But the authorship of the text is Luis Daniel . In fact, I have to admit that I read Chesterton : after reading The Man Who Was Thursday developed an allergy that is not cured me, although I admit that is a tremendously resourceful type (I love you to define the task of educators as "the difficult work of converting drunks in tasters'). Hope you like the text. Comment
Chesterton the streets where we live are 'variegated, striped, dotted, spotted and a patchwork quilt, "but in these' colors are poorly connected, in a wrong scale and above all, for the wrong reasons. "
And to explain this, we compared the 'giant trivia is in commercials with the tiny and tremendous pictures in which the medieval recorded their dreams, small paintings where the blue sky is somewhat larger than a single sapphire and the fires of hell just a speck of gold pygmy. The difference here is not only the art of the poster is by nature faster than illuminated manuscripts, it is not even that the artist should be serving God, while the modern artist is serving the lords. Is that the old artist struggling to convey the impression that colors really were significant and precious things, like jewels and talismanic stones. The color used to be arbitrary, but was always definitive. If a bird was blue, if a tree was golden, if a fish was silver, if a cloud was red, the artist managed to convey that these colors were important and almost painfully intense, all bright red and gold burned in the fire. That's the spirit for the color that schools must recover and protect if you really want children to be interested or find pleasure in him. Not so much a color excess, rather it is, so to speak, a kind of burning savings. (...) This is the hard work that lies ahead for educators on this issue in particular: to teach people to enjoy the colors as they do with booze. They have the difficult task of convert drunken tasters. "
And later continues: "The earthy brown monk's habit chose to express work and humility, while the brown hat clerk chose not to express anything. The monk wanted to say that he was dressed in dust. I'm sure the clerk does not mean that crown from clay. " "The white ermine wanted to express moral purity, white vests, no." "The issue is not that we lost the nuances of color, but have lost the ability for you to get the best match. We are not like children who have lost their paint box and we have been only a gray pencil. We are like children who have mixed all the colors of the box and lost the role of the instructions. Yet (do not deny it), one can have fun. "
GK Chesterton. "Broken Rainbow" What is wrong with the world (What's Wrong with the World, 1910). New York: Citadel, 2006, 208 pp., Col. Citadel test; trad. of Monica Rubio Fernández, ISBN: 84-934669-7-2.
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