Sentences with phrase «sacred art»
"Sacred art" refers to artwork or objects that are created with a spiritual or religious purpose, usually associated with worship or devotion to a higher power. It can include paintings, sculptures, and other forms of expression that convey religious themes or stories. Full definition
Now, I'm going to do something dangerous and critically engage with a piece of sacred art that a lot of people have very real emotional attachments to.
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One reason, I think, that the contemporary art world can seem so alienated from the larger culture is its striking lack of interest in sacred art.
While my work relates very much to the history of sacred art, it has no religious significance and the humor in it is very contemporary.
I saw amazing silver and gold altars and incredible paintings, jeweled communion cups and other sacred art that attest to the love that churchpeople have lavished on God for many centuries.
Inspired by Masheck's remarkable essays on the relationships between modernist painting and icons and other pre-Old Master sacred art — what he dubbed «hard - core» painting — I wrote almost exclusively in support of abstract painting.
In his comparison of icons to Western sacred art, Hart points to the «spiritual realism» of icons, rather than «carnal realism», in that they «depict people who are radiant with the uncreated light of God».
The Grand Bhatara Turun Kabeh ceremony at Besakih temple is highlighted with many sacred art performances, and many of them are masked dance - drama performances such as Topeng Pajegan, Topeng Sidakarya, or Topeng Panca.
Saints are more often associated with traditional sacred art than with contemporary work, but Michael Landy, current Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist in residence at the National Gallery, has been inspired to revisit the subject for this exhibition.
Dr. Graybill oversees gallery rotations of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and pan-Asian sacred art, as well as thematic exhibitions on topics as varied as Persian narrative painting, ancient Chinese bronzes, and the arts of the Japanese Noh drama.
These acrylic paintings on vinyl are mandalas — a Sanskrit word that means «sacred art within a circle.»
Beauty in the Sacred The revelatory character of sacred art is specifically depicted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has created.»
Suspended animation of this kind serves to further remove Susini's Baptist from the realm of commonplace experience, an effect devoutly to be desired in sacred art.
The mantra - like repetition of stitches together with vivid patterning, are reminiscent of mandalas and other sacred art, but Cox imbues the works with an off - kilter humor and pathos that places them squarely in his head and from his inimitable hand.
And this from Jacob Needleman: Like all sacred art, legends are for the feeling; and it is more important to feel what one knows — even if it is only one thing — than to know with the head alone a mass of theories and facts.
Like all sacred art, legends are for the feeling; and it is more important to feel what one knows — even if it is only one thing — than to know with the head alone a mass of theories and facts.
(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us in the revelation of God in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives of the saints, sacred art, miracles of conversion and healing, and in her own very nature.
Since the nature of the political and intellectual «turn» seems to me at best ambiguous, and since the facts of the earlier period still stand, by what authority does Heidegger propose to tell us about the nature of humanism, the proper attitude of humanity to technology or the sacred art of thinking?
The faith was not merely explained in its doctrine but reflected in sacred art, music, architecture, and the poetry of liturgy.
Other churches such as Santa Maria dei Miracoli, having lost their parishioners or religious congregations, have dispensed with the daily or weekly mass altogether and have become galleries of sacred art, with the occasional Vivaldi concert or upper - class wedding.
In Venice the Chorus foundation was formed by the Archdiocese in order to restore some of their magnificent churches and their sacred art.
In a liturgical celebration, the possibilities include but are not limited to the following: hearing the spoken word as well as polyphonic cadences of liturgical chant; seeing liturgical colours or depictions of the Christian mysteries in sacred art; smelling incense, beeswax or fresh flowers; tasting the Eucharist in the forms of bread and wine; touching the holy water or being anointed with chrism as well as kinesthetic movement in kneeling or processing.
In the formation of seminarians, education in beauty should not be neglected, nor education in the sacred arts, as we are reminded in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council (cf Sacrosanctum Concilium, 129).
It is indispensable to the purification of the sacred arts.
More than common circumstances, however, what drew me and so many other young writers to L'Engle was her articulation of the writing life as a sacred art.
Mandalas are geometric circular patterns thought to be sacred art.
After over 10 years of practicing, and teaching Kundalini Yoga, having learnt this sacred art in Anandpur Sahib, Northern India - I can tell you this stuff is amazing.
The sacred art of balancing masculine and feminine energy in a relationship (with plenty of real life examples and helpful tips).
Wisdom is shared, blows are traded and bellies are fed, as Po learns the sacred art of kung fu.
As you can tell from the photograph below, Buddy has well and truly mastered the sacred art of relaxation!
The hotel is located in the heart of Belém on Avenida Nazaré, along which the Círio de Nazaré procession passes, and near the city's main tourist attractions, such as the Estação das Docas, Ver - o - Peso Market, Presépio Fort, Pará museum of sacred art and Paz Theater.
From the myriad, worldwide traditions of sacred art to Hegel's assertion that the true content of art is «the Divine, the deepest interests of mankind, and the most comprehensive truths of the spirit,» many artists have understood their vocation as that of mediator between spirit and matter.
Historically, most visual art has been in some degree mimetic, and sacred art is no exception.
Back in Manhattan, I relaxed in the plush screening room hidden within the Bumble and Bumble hair salon, where Rainer Judd was unspooling a sweet short about her father's transformation of Marfa, Texas, from a cattle town to a sacred art site.
The Abbot Morel was known for his creation of abstract expressionist «sacred art»...
But think about it: when was the last time that a major Chelsea gallery displayed unironic contemporary Christian (or Jewish or Islamic or Buddhist or Hindu) sacred art?
In celebration of the frescoes, their time in Houston, and the purpose - built Chapel that has been their home for fifteen years; the Menil will present special public events commemorating the return of this sacred art.
In 2005, Höfer embarked upon a project at the Musée du Louvre, documenting its various galleries, examining not only the sacred art they exhibit but also their individual design, arches, tiles and embellishments, with spectators and tourists entirely absent.
To be able to present this body of work to a college - age audience and to perhaps inspire other artists to create in the genre of sacred art is a great privilege indeed.»