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RELIGIOUS art, as Philosopher Jacques Maritain once remarked, "ought to be religious." That limits the field to those few modern artists who feel the need to express their religious faith. On this and the following page are recent works by two such skilled and devout moderns. The mosaic Station of the Cross (above] was done for Mt. Angel Abbey at St. Benedict, Ore. by a 55-year-old Californian named Louisa Jenkins. The stained-glass Sermon from the Boat (overleaf) is a replica detail of a window in St. Ann's Chapel of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif...
Both artists breathe new life into mediums which have long suffered from lack of fresh talent. Louisa Jenkins studied Byzantine masterpieces of mosaic art in northern
Italy, then found new techniques of her own. Besides the traditional Italian mosaic glass, she uses lava rock, iridescent furnace slag, crystal, quartz, mica and pyrites to produce extraordinarily various effects. Her mosaic above shows the moment when Christ met his mother on the Way of the Cross. As Artist Jenkins puts it, the "Cross becomes a sword of Truth between them. In the look between them, Mary realizes that He must go before...
...single lens, as human eyes do, to focus an image on the retina, insect eyes have many fine tubes, each tipped with a small lens. Each lens views a small part of a wide field, and the light that enters the lenses follows the tubes and forms a mosaic image. Some of the tubes are curved, but the light follows them just the same...
...chapters of parasites and fungi are by no means all of the Agriculture study. "Phony Peach and Peach Mosaic" not only gets to the heart of the annoying fruit virus problem, but also contains some rather caustic remarks about "the phony peach project of 1929." Other chapters of importance include: "Powdery Mildew of Apples," "The Rot That Attacks 2,000 Species," "Stony Pit of Pears," and "Hazards to Onions in Many Areas...