As we celebrate
the feast of All Saints, I introduce you today to the beautiful tapestries by
John Nava in the Cathedral of Los Angeles. In 1999, the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles commissioned from the artist John Nava (born 1947) three cycles of
tapestries for the walls of its new Cathedral, which was dedicated in 2002.They
include 25 monumental tapestries representing a procession of saints of today and
yesterday, famous and little-known. The resulting cortege that descends into
the nave of the Cathedral is a veritable masterpiece. John Nava
includes no less than 136 saints, each one of whom he manages to render as
vibrantly alive amid the faithful as they are in the company of angels in
heaven. Their faces, as though woven from the complex strands of their
condition as saved sinners, are striking in their human realism - so much so
that, in each, the viewer feels he recognizes an acquaintance, a neighbor, a
friend, a brother, a sister. (Click to enlarge these photos)
No comments:
Post a Comment