Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sacra conversazione” to be the altarpiece’s main attraction, the altarpiece’s exceptional background is surprisingly the cause of debate. Rather than coinciding an iconic religious background with the conventional religious imagery in the foreground, the artist unexpectedly copied a secular landscape from Guilio Campagnola’s print “Shepherds in a Landscape” as this altarpiece’s background. Rather than the conventional background of golden leaves and angels, the viewer instead finds a background of trees and pastures. “Sacra conversazione” stuns...
...Explaining his latest works as inspiration from the Jewish secular culture and tradition, Weil may easily mislead the viewer into seeing these paintings solely as celebratory art. Entering the exhibit, the viewer is immediately confronted by the cheerful oranges, reds, cinnamons and golds that dominate almost all of his paintings. The bright colors of the paintings create a startling contrast against the gallery’s white walls...
...Parker: Secular types are not thrilled about the proposal, but are more willing to apply the program across the board, rather than limit who gets the money. Older people, aged 65 and older, are much less enthusiastic about the program than younger folks, and they're also very concerned with separation of church and state. Some researchers theorize that this fear makes sense; older Americans come from an era when a majority religion was much more evident in every aspect of public life. People who lived through that era could, I'm sure, imagine state-sponsored religion becoming an issue...
...help but draw your undivided attention-and it's no wonder that it captured the eye of a Boston Episcopalian such as Mrs. Gardner. These crosses are almost too beautiful to be religious, and yet the genuine piety evident in the artists' labors gives them a depth beyond many secular works...
...debate, titled "Theism Reconsidered: Does God Exist?" pitted Harvard Christian Unity members Richard T. Halvorson '03 and Lara M. Buchak `03 against Shankar Duraiswamy `02 and Christopher M. Kirchhoff `01 of the Harvard Secular Society...