2- Sacred Symbol, Sacred Art

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This is a talk looking at the differences between traditional and contemporary art as well as exploring the symbolic structures and purpose of traditional art. This talk was originally given at King's University College in London Ontario in 2015.

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0:00.0	I'd like to welcome you to the second episode of the Symbolic World podcast.
0:05.0	What you're about to hear is one of the first talks I gave, one of the first public talks I gave on art and symbolism.
0:14.0	The discussion looks at the difference between traditional art and postmodern art.
0:18.7	It looks at the structures that are within traditional art, but also the purpose of traditional art and postmodern art. It looks at the structures that are within traditional
0:23.1	art, but also the purpose of traditional art itself. I do reference to some images of postmodern
0:30.3	art, but I think that most people who are listening will be able to make sense of what I'm
0:36.1	talking about, despite not looking at images themselves
0:39.0	because I do talk in general terms about certain structures that appear in the images.
0:44.5	And so if you are struggling to follow, you can always find this on my YouTube channel
0:50.4	where the full talk is posted with all the images as well.
0:55.4	This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. Well, first of all, I want to thank you all for the opportunity to talk to you about the subject that I love, which is Christian art, and I'd like to thank you all for the opportunity to talk to you about the subject that I love, which is Christian art.
1:47.7	And I'd like to thank especially Father Michael, who seems to do all kinds of things to encourage me in my work.
1:54.5	And so, tonight I'm going to talk about sacred symbols, sacred art.
1:59.8	How sacred art, how sacred art,
2:05.5	what sacred art looks like, what makes it different from regular art,
2:06.9	from contemporary art, from modern art.
2:14.2	So, 800 years ago, a thousand years ago,
2:20.2	she had walked into a church, any church, whether a church in Jerusalem,
2:26.8	in Constantinople, in Rome, Alexandria, or Kiev, you might have felt an eerie connection,
2:32.9	entering the nave from the narthex, walking in and peering in east toward the sanctuary,
2:39.0	then looking up at the walls, at the holy people depicted there, and mostly upon gazing on that universal image of Christ,
2:44.0	you would be connecting to a common sacred language of art.
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