Aesthetic Realism taught us a way of seeing love which changed the cynicism we both had about any possible good relation of men and women.  We learned that the purpose two people need to have in marriage is to know and like the world outside of them. We’re very grateful for this, and for the fact that we can look at a work of art and see its meaning in relation to our own marriage.

We’ll speak about a painting we both love, Rembrandt's "The Jewish Bride," also known as “The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca.” This painting, done in 1666, in the last decade of Rembrandt's life, is beautiful, and our feeling about it is greater as we look at it in relation to the Aesthetic Realism principle that: "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."

It’s a great thing in the history of marriage that husbands and wives can actually learn from the technique of art, and it is Aesthetic Realism which makes this possible. 

        We’ll speak about two pairs of opposites we see as central in this work, and which are crucial to the happiness of every married couple.