Salut! Ce va?

Well, I'm at the library again. I work every Saturday and Sunday until December. So expect a few blogs from me on these days.

To keep you up-to-date, I am currently reading a book called Modern Sacred Art and the Church of Assy by William S. Rubin. It was suggested by Ed Knippers and describes the genesis of the aforementioned church, specifically it's decorative arts. Including artists such as, Bonnard (post-Favre), Rouault (one artist I was looking at this summer, one of his works was at the TSCPL show, the B&W Christ figure), Lurcat (a Marxist), Leger (Communist), Matisse, Lipchitz (Jewish), Chagall (Jewish), etc.

So, basically, it was the first real attempt to include the ever changing artistic expressions in a church setting. A real big step.

All of this is to say, in one part of the book it makes a sideways comment that the "Red Sea Passage [is] a familiar Old Testament prefiguration of the sacrament of baptism", say what you will of sacraments, it is still a connection I never saw before. Also it was pointed out, "It was simple liturgical logic for the two Jewish artists participating at Assy to be originally assigned the baptistry, for this section of the church is associated with the transition from the state of Law to that of Grace."

Needless to say, it's a good book.