That mixture of air and color and light and glass and form and figure and content and container. The Arts are usually divided into several classes, according to the sense and perception that has the greatest proportion. The sight, would be the plastic ones, the hearing, the musical ones, the taste, the gastronomic ones, the movement, the dance, the word, the literature, etc. Plus the combined or hybrid or mixed forms, which in general, are to a greater or lesser extent, almost all. Because there is no totally exclusive art. Among the mixed ones would be the opera, the cinema, the theater…
Cathedral
A cathedral or a modest hermitage, almost forgotten on a mountain, is more than architecture, it is somehow, to synthesize-crystallize-materialize the spirit in a reality or condition of flesh, of flesh of earth and stone and within it, there are to a greater or lesser degree, of more or less quality, almost all the arts. In a way, a cathedral is itself a happening, a total art or a total work of art. Because within it is contained various knowledge: religious, theological, philosophical, literary, plastic, musical, etc.
Cathedrals are like those great symphonies of stone and air and sound and color and spirit-soul and flesh and nerves.. It is like a concentration of senses. In which, generations and centuries, a cathedral from seven centuries ago, every century four generations of human beings, there are almost thirty generations of men and women, who have lived and existed under its canopies, in the shade of its stones/airs. A cathedral is a multi-meaning, multi-significant, multi-content, multi-continent… It is like a wind or lightning, which softens the human being, humanizes the human being, shepherds the human beings through the plows of the centuries, of the byways of the history.
Maximo Gomez Rascon
The expert in the Cathedral of León and in Art and priest Maximo Gomez RasconHe published a book titled: Leon Cathedral. The Stained Glass. The symbolism of light. In which he narrates that mixture and combination and hybridization that we are indicating, with light and glass the stained glass windows represent many aspects of the totality and partiality of human beings, many aspects of his heart, many perspectives of his flesh, many optics of his soul-spirit. It is the history of salvation under the light of Judaism, the Old Testament, the brilliance of Christianity, the New Testament. The Cathedral of León and its stained glass windows is an encyclopedia in light and air and silence of what man is and aspires tothat mixture of immanences and those mixtures of transcendence looking for The Other, the Mystery, the Transcendence, the Eternity, the Good Lord…
The glass is believed to have been a chance discovery, made by the Phoenicians, although pieces of glass have already been found in Ancient Egyptian times. Stained glass windows, stained glass windows, began in the West in the Romanesque and were perfected in the Gothic. When architecture knew how to take that step, from Romanesque art to Gothic art, from barely having spaces or windows of light, to that arborescent shape where many openings or voids could exist, without the need for walls and walls and pillars and buttresses to hold, the covered, then the need arose to fill them with crystals and light, in short, with the history of humanity in terms of religion, spirituality and humanity…
art and religions
Art in the West and in Europe for several centuries can be understood as the competence of the three great religions and each one of them, elevating its ontological and metaphysical and dogmatic and religious and spiritual principles to the category of the exhibition of the great tree of architecture. Architecture as symbol and signifier and superstructure of its sacred books. Medieval religious architecture is the architecture of its moral and spiritual and conceptual dogmas of each religion. The great religious temples are like the flag of stones and various materials, raised to the sky, as a representation of the beliefs of each religious group. It is like a huge theater and happening and installation and total work of art and total work that men project from their being and their beliefs…
For several generations humans, some, have looked to the East seeking transcendence and spirituality, many walked to those places and places. They forgot that if they enter the caves and grottos, like Altamira and Lascaux and Chauvet caves that are and represent the cathedrals. If they curl up, sitting in the silence of the cathedral of León, they can/you can if they keep the interior and exterior silence, that the light of the different colors of the stained glass windows, the walls and their shadows, the background sounds of medieval music monastic take them on interior journeys. You don’t have to go to the Far East, you don’t have to go to the silence of the desert…
You only have to sit down, spend several hours, let the environment of light and silence and sound go through the interior of the self like plows, and, you understand and understand the light and the shadows, the mysteries and the joys of the human, of your humanity… the silence and sound and color and light of the centuries, of the immanent and the transcendent and Transcendent… @mundiario