Religious art graces Ellen Noël
By Georgia Temple
Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram
ODESSA, TEXAS - Retablos, santos, crucifixes and altar pieces grace the Ellen Noël Art Museum in the exhibition "The Art of Devotion: Latin American Religious Art from the Collection of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts."
"They are influenced by the Spanish baroque art forms, which were inherited when conquistadors and especially the monks came over and brought these images with them," said Les Reker, director of the Ellen Noël Art Museum. "The monks would make images of the saints basically to teach Bible stories. The monks weren't necessarily trained in art, but they remembered some of the forms they brought over."
"What we have in this collection are folk art that come after that and are made by Native Americans who converted to Catholicism — the Incas and the Aztecs, and we're talking about not just Mexico but going down to South America. But the images we have are primarily Mexican."
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By Georgia Temple
Reporter
Midland Reporter-Telegram
ODESSA, TEXAS - Retablos, santos, crucifixes and altar pieces grace the Ellen Noël Art Museum in the exhibition "The Art of Devotion: Latin American Religious Art from the Collection of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.""They are influenced by the Spanish baroque art forms, which were inherited when conquistadors and especially the monks came over and brought these images with them," said Les Reker, director of the Ellen Noël Art Museum. "The monks would make images of the saints basically to teach Bible stories. The monks weren't necessarily trained in art, but they remembered some of the forms they brought over."
"What we have in this collection are folk art that come after that and are made by Native Americans who converted to Catholicism — the Incas and the Aztecs, and we're talking about not just Mexico but going down to South America. But the images we have are primarily Mexican."
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