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Modern Masters. One day, years later, his spiritual superiors asked Pére Couturier what he thought of the present art in churches. His answer came with surprising vehemence. "Our church art is in complete decay," he burst out. "It is dead, dusty, academic-imitations of imitations . . . with no power...
"Outside the Church the great modern masters have walked-Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Braque. The Church has not reached out, as once it would have, to bring them in. And here we have men who speak directly to the people with the same simple power...
What Father Couturier could do was partially demonstrated this week in a little church in the village of Assy, which celebrated the formal dedication of two handsome stained-glass windows, portraying Saints Veronica and Martha, by the famed contemporary French painter Georges Rouault. Father Couturier had conceived the idea and...
Sins of Imagination. White-robed, ascetic-looking Father Couturier, 51, his tonsure sharply outlined against his close-cropped head, his brown eyes bright with his own soaring imagination, has become the light and power of a small but significant movement among French artists. From the first, his primary concern has...
Gradually he has won the interest of scoffers and agnostics among the painters, even including a few Communists, e.g., Picasso. Father Couturier welcomes them all, whatever the state of their faith. "We start," he explains, "with the assumption that artists are men and therefore sinners. If their sins are sometimes...