Bruce Herman Portfolio
These works were made over a three or four year period during which I was searching for a visual analogue for the mystery of Jesus' sacrifice and love for us. I had been many times to Italy and seen a lot of Renaissance religious art that showed the lives of the historic martyrs and saints of the church. The icons and murals of Italy inspired my use of gold leaf and religious subject matter--but I was not trying to simply make modern religious paintings--I was trying to communicate to my own generation what seems to have largely been lost in contemporary art--a sense of what is holy, what is at the core of human and divine mystery, and what Christ calls us all to be and to do: become broken for the world.
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Eucharist
from the series Elegy for Witness
© Bruce Herman 2002
oil and alkyd resin with 23 kt gold and silver leaf on panel
81" x 166"