MISTAKEN ART
Pope’s View of Modern Trend EXCLUSION FROM CHURCH (Rec. Oct. 28, 10.45 p.m.) Rome, Oct. 28. The Pope, in opening the new Vatican picture gallery, severely criticised “socalled modern art,” which he said merely caricatured profane and sacred things. Some people defended modern art by saying that it represented a search for something new, whereas it only revealed incapacity or unwillingness to learn. “We wish such art to be excluded from our churches,” he said. “Nothing should distract the attention of the faithful In the name of mistaken art’
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 11
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91MISTAKEN ART Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 11
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