{"title":"Liturgical Experiences Mediated through Abstract Art","authors":"Behrenfeld F.S.E. Maura","doi":"10.1177/003932071704700108","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"F the church committee that invited the Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning to create an altarpiece for their liturgies (shown below),1 the art he presented resulted in “dividing and alienating church members.”2 Many in the congregation were “genuinely confused” as to whether the artist’s tryptic, consisting of “swirling primary color lines,” held any liturgical meaning whatsoever.3 Parishioner Peggy Moran explains her liturgical experience in relation to the artwork: “I found it annoying. To me, the colors are circusy kinds of colors, McDonald’s colors.” ... I couldn’t concentrate.”4","PeriodicalId":39597,"journal":{"name":"Studia Liturgica","volume":"53 1","pages":"113 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studia Liturgica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/003932071704700108","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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F the church committee that invited the Dutch-American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning to create an altarpiece for their liturgies (shown below),1 the art he presented resulted in “dividing and alienating church members.”2 Many in the congregation were “genuinely confused” as to whether the artist’s tryptic, consisting of “swirling primary color lines,” held any liturgical meaning whatsoever.3 Parishioner Peggy Moran explains her liturgical experience in relation to the artwork: “I found it annoying. To me, the colors are circusy kinds of colors, McDonald’s colors.” ... I couldn’t concentrate.”4
教会委员会邀请荷兰裔美国抽象表现主义者威廉·德·库宁(Willem de Kooning)为他们的礼拜仪式创作祭坛画(如下图所示),他所呈现的艺术导致了“分裂和疏远教会成员”。会众中的许多人“真的很困惑”,不知道这位艺术家的色系画,由“旋转的原色线”组成,是否具有任何礼拜意义教区居民佩吉·莫兰(Peggy Moran)解释了她与艺术品有关的礼拜经历:“我觉得它很烦人。对我来说,这些颜色是马戏团的颜色,麦当劳的颜色。“…我无法集中注意力。