GUERNICA

Introduction ­ The Church and the use of art.

No Christian Art

Liturgical art

What is good art?

Experience your experience

Revolutionary role in civilization

How to discuss art

Don't ask artist what it means

Trialogue ­ you, I, painting

Questions ­ Order your questions very carefully in the following pattern in order that a progression in consciousness takes place.

1. Impressionistic Immediate raw data of the art form.
2. Reflective: Personal relation with the data of the art form.
3. Interpretive, cultural: association of personal relations to the art form with ordinary life content.

Conclusion ­ Call attention to the fact that this conversation has had to do with their lives. Tell story of the painting

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Purpose ­ To engage the group in an authentic reflection upon the suffering of their own lives and their relationship with it. To effect a corporate presence to the dimension of selfhood.

MOVIE: REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT

Introduction ­

1. The movie is also art.

2. The Church used drama from the first.

3. Look at movie with Christian glasses on.

Questions ­ Order questions same as above, but add theological interpretations.

where would you point in the movie with ­

Activity of God

Sin

Christ Happening

Resurrected Life

Conclusion ­ Point out that the Christian symbols illuminate the way life actually is and give us the tools to be self­conscious to the human happening and to humanness, authentic and inauthentic.

Purpose ­ To provide the group the opportunity to ground their theological understanding in the concretions of the movie drama and therefore in their own 1ives.