1. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
– Marc Chagall (1887–1985) Russian-French artist, remark, 1977

2. Marc Chagall
Born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia.
Died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer.
He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic.
Predating Surrealism, his early works, such as I and the Village (1911), were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art.
His works in various media include sets for plays and ballets, etchings illustrating the Bible, and stained-glass windows.

3. Art and the Sacred Dedicated to Ramon Mujica rev. 2018 jan 27
Dedicated to Ramon Mujica

4. He has written books on the mystical intellectual sources of St
He has written books on the mystical intellectual sources of St. Rose of Lima,
The first saint of the Americas,
And on the political dimensions of her Creole and Indian cult that prepared the ground for Peru's political Independence from Spain in 1821.

5. He is a “miembro de numero” of the Peruvian Academia Nacional de Historia and a "miembro correspondiente" from the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires.
He has been appointed to be a board member of the Instituto Cervantes in filling a seat vacated by Isabella Allende.

6. Art and the Sacred

7. Professor Hector Behar

8. Professor Hector Behar
Asks us three questions:
¿Con qué cultura o universo cultural se define Ud.?
¿Cómo se define en su cultura lo sagrado?
¿Cómo se vincula en su cultura el arte con lo sagrado?

9. Painting
Sculpture
Textiles
Dance
Music

10. The Sacred
Originally Lord Kṛṣṇa is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, the transcendental form of eternity, bliss and knowledge…

11. SACRED
Birth
Disease
Old Age
Death
PROFANE

12. In any form of life, we are related with Viṣṇu, who is the most beloved, the Supersoul, son, friend and guru.
Our eternal relationship with God can be revived in the human form of life, and that should be the goal of education.
Indeed, that is the perfection of life and the perfection of education.

13. Art and the Sacred Art and the Sacred Art and the Sacred
Can Be Revived
Art and the Sacred
Art and the Sacred
Art and the Sacred
Art and the Sacred

15. River Dance

16. Sri Krsna
Caitanya
Sankirtan

17. A Bengali Hindu spiritual leader who founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu
February 1486 –June 1534
A Bengali Hindu spiritual leader who founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism. 

18. Art can be a manifestation of, and a pathway toward, the transcendent realm.
In general terms Music is the finest art. Dance is the first result of good music.
Then Visual arts.
Taste and smell after that.

19. In specific examples, the different hierarchies of art stimulate each other.

20. Thank you The Goal is Real? The Means is Practical?
The Benefit is Perfect?
Thank you