RELIGIOUS PAINTING PABLO PICASSO AND MAX VON MOOS

The war caused a considerable revival of certain themes of religious art. In particular, it intensified Pablo Picasso's lifelong pre occupation with the subject of the Crucifixion. The work of the Swiss surrealist painter Max von Moos (1903-1979) throws additional light on the paradox at hand. In 1938, i.e. one year after Picasso painted Guernica, von Moos published an essay entitled Religious Painting of Our Time that addresses some of the critical issues then confronted by church art.