Word: congdon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Congdon...
...encouraged to see abstract art go religious via William Congdon [March 2]. A religious theme gives it purpose, and art can still illuminate religion, as it has done so worthily in the past...
...photograph of Congdon's Crucifix No. 2 seems to show that the hard-won visual knowledge leading up to the faithless cliches of abstract expressionism has also served him well-although perhaps it is unfair to judge on so little...
...Arch Cliché." Even painting failed. After a visit to Cambodia in 1959, Congdon returned home to Venice convinced that he had exhausted his creative reserve. In this searching mood, he went to Assisi and became a Catholic...
...Congdon still likes the technical beauty of his secular works, but feels there is "a whole new space, life and breath of spirit in my paintings now." As a Christian and an artist, he is aware of the danger that he might confuse the "religious subjects" to which he is drawn for the direct experience and personal vision that can be the only legitimate subject for a work of art. But as an abstract painter, he is appalled at the emptiness and formality of most modern art. "It is the purest materialism," he argues. "My painting seems more important than...