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In Defense of Modern Art?! with Fr. Bonaventure Chapman

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The Importance of Abstract Art

If we lost all of my dad's favorites, Clifford Still, would we have missed out on a fundamental experience of reality in Western civilization? I would say no. If you use the word eternal, I would say transcendental. Does transcendental mean across all time and space? Can an abstract modern art get it a truth that is transcendental like infinity or something? That seems to be a truth, will it, is it certainly harder for us to relate to? Is it more abstract? Yeah. But does that mean it surprised me that it's not held longer time? No, probably not.

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