221 - Fr. Silouan Justiniano - Icons and Contemporary Art
The Symbolic World
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What Is the Meaning of Art?
The art that we're talking about did not make a stark distinction between sacred and secular spheres, as much as we tend to oka. So you could have courtly art that used what we consider to be a sacred theme, or vice versa. There weren't no distinctions between how you would depict things in the church and how you Would depict them in the court or in the folk context. In the village, they sey. They were more closely linkedyou you could have levels of refinement lov that art. But but ultimately, it was an art that was dear towards way that i would put it, some people might not like the idea because it comes from a nineteenth century art critic
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