The Artist’s Table: Lonely Cedars

Luncheon and Presentation by Milan Spak
Collegeville Institute Artist-in-Residence

Milan Spak

Milan will speak about three unique artists from whom he has drawn inspiration: László Mednyanszky,  Bohuslav Reynek and Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry.

Milan writes, “These artists – who grew as lonely cedars in a barren land – provide us with shade where we can heal our thirst for beauty and take a rest from the burning heat of a secularized world. Their lives testified to the unceasing search for perfection, a self-effacement, that cannot but be mirrored in their works. They did not consciously aim at “resacredalization” of art; nevertheless they brought back a long-buried smell of a forgotten perfume of the sacred at the price of their suffering souls.”

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
12:30 – 1:45pm
Butler Center at the Collegeville Institute