The Jubilee of the Artist : 7th April 2025

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=A0jLM_9vGabtO-8n&v=JkVf9cigENc&feature=youtu.be We have a rich tradition of hagiographic art around St. Francis Xavier. Catholic art being a narrative art these art works tell us a story. They depict the saint preaching, baptizing, working miracles, travelling, praying, dying and his finally resting in the Basilica of Bon Jesus. There is fundamental logic of this artistic expressions. They usually stay...

GREETINGS

There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao