AGGIOMA-MENTO САКРАЛЬНОЇ СКЛАДОВОЇ МИСТЕЦТВА КАТОЛИЦИЗМУ

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the content and role of religious art in Catholicism. The focus is on the modernization tendencies of the religious art of contemporary Catholicism. The semantic load of this type of art and its symbolic meaning are analyzed. The reasons for the modernization of the traditional designs of Catholic worship are explored. The reasons for the need for renewal that emerged under the influence of both external and internal social and social factors are being explored. It has been investigated that the reaction of contemporary Catholicism to the processes occurring in art in general and in religious in particular is somewhat problematic. Religious images and subjects in contemporary art are increasingly becoming abstract categories. The latter, as if overcoming the limits of the present day, go beyond the limits of the actual religious idea aimed at the future. In architecture, fine arts, music, cinema, etc., which are actively used by the Church, there is a kind of demythologization of Christian subjects and images. They are often transformed into a form of philosophical generalizations, a martyr's comprehension of present problems from the standpoint of eternity, in search of universal, transient values.It is revealed that the convergence of the Church with modern art is primarily due to the fact that modernism, by deforming reality, schematizing or destroying the natural terrestrial images of things, phenomena and people, allows to give these images a religious interpretation, to associate them with the supernatural. The desire for the supernatural affords the contemporary artist with metaphysics. After all, the metaphysician seizes the spiritual in the idea, and the artist catches it in the flesh. This surrealism is achieved most precisely by modern art.