Seven Agitators: Promoters of Contemporary Sacred Art in Twentieth-Century Spain

While throughout its two-thousand-year history the Catholic Church has always used the various arts to convey the message of Jesus Christ to the people, the sacred art of the 20th century is not very well known today. One of the reasons for this absence is the transition from the fascination with av...

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Main Author:	Fernández-Cobián, Esteban
Format:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:	spa
Published:	UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIÑO 2023
Subjects:	España arte arte sacro historia del arte historia del siglo XX > Spain art sacred art history of art history of XXth century Espanha arte sacra história da arte história do século XX
Online Access:	https://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/1583 https://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/10721
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Summary:	While throughout its two-thousand-year history the Catholic Church has always used the various arts to convey the message of Jesus Christ to the people, the sacred art of the 20th century is not very well known today. One of the reasons for this absence is the transition from the fascination with avant-garde sacred art that took place in the ecclesiastical world after World War II to the interest in the conservation of the historical heritage in the last decades of the 20th century. This article reviews the careers of six promoters of sacred art in Spain -Josep Torrás, Luis Almarcha, Joan Ferrando Roig, Alfonso Roig, José Manuel de Aguilar and Juan Plazaola- who during the central decades of the 20th century promoted the decorative arts and art dedicated to divine worship, convinced that the mysteries of the Christian faith must be sensitively translated through the genius of artists.