Let me be up front, for the amount of money spent on this Cathedral in Los Angeles, what a shame they chose not a "mission" style of architecture but the bizarre architecture that it is. If the people give to the construction of a cathedral or any Catholic religious building, thank God, as they are also giving through expensive material goods the building of sports' stadiums, shopping malls and sky scrappers. So if you complain about how much a cathedral or church costs and don't give, then by God, don't buy sport's tickets, clothes or other merchandise or go to banks, insurance buildings or any other type of office building. Be consistent.
But the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels placed the last tapestry into the cathedral recently. I have been to the cathedral and I like the tapestries. When I saw the image of the new one on Praytell which critiques it and not positively, I thought it was the Risen Lord with a trimmed beard. Of course the photo was from a distance. But it looked to me almost transgendered, but I think it was my eyes. On closer inspection it is indeed "Our Lady of the Angels."
There are more photos in the Praytell article below. What do you think? It does add some warmth to this barn or stadium of a building.
Anyway, here is Praytell's critique. The comments are good especially the shocking one from my good friend from my Praytell days, Bill Dehass:
It Is Finished: LA Cathedral adds new tapestries
It is finished. Probably it shouldn’t have been. Well enough should have been left alone. This past month the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Los Angeles, Our Lady of the Angels, announced the completion of its tapestry cycle.
The original tapestries by artist John Nava, installed for the dedication of the cathedral in 2002, are rightly considered among the most salient, sensitive, and sophisticated pieces of contemporary liturgical art in the United States.
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From the outsìde, the cathedral appears a mere office building, but, looks can be deceiving, as inside it nearly as lovely as the very finest of Russian train stations.
Truthfully, the critique of the tapestry reminds me of a crude joke from youth where a desperate guy has sex with a gorilla at the instigation of friends, and they then start laughing at him, because according to them, he picked the ugliest one.
This art critic is going after what color of gum stuck to bottom of ratty shoe.
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