{"id":32106,"date":"2024-04-10T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32106"},"modified":"2024-04-10T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:22:23","slug":"revd-charles-millers-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=32106","title":{"rendered":"Revd Charles Miller’s new book"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis evening, Revd. Charles Miller, from St Helen’s Church, Abingdon, gave an illustrated talk about his new book, ‘The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse: Vence’s Chapel of the Rosary’. <\/p>\n

Matisse was a solitary artist known for defying conventional academic art. His work lacked any obvious religious themes.<\/p>\n

In 1941, diagnosed with colon cancer, Matisse entered what he called his ‘second life.’ While hospitalised, under the care of Dominican nuns, the idea for the Chapel of the Rosary was born. A Dominican novice, along with two friars, became his spiritual guides for the chapel’s decoration. Matisse said, ‘For 50 years I worked relentlessly, never looking up…now I appreciate life in a completely new way.’<\/p>\n

By 1948, Matisse said, ‘When I go to the Chapel, I have a feeling that my whole self is there – finally, all that is best in me.’<\/p>\n

(Thanks to Mrs Backstreeter for this report. I was at the Abingdon Town Council annual Parish meeting and will type up that report tomorrow.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This evening, Revd. Charles Miller, from St Helen’s Church, Abingdon, gave an illustrated talk about his new book, ‘The Spiritual Adventure of Henri Matisse: Vence’s Chapel of the Rosary’. Matisse was a solitary artist known for defying conventional academic art. His work lacked any obvious religious themes. In 1941, diagnosed with colon cancer, Matisse entered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}