Do Catholic Churches Did More Modern Art?

Creative Minority Report has more on this silliness at Vatican Official: More Modernist Art Needed in Churches


I am not one to rant against "Modern Art". But let me again post the quote that Creatives gives from an Orthodox viewpoint.

...The Roman Church therefore appeals to the most famous or contemporary painters to decorate its churches, without being in the least concerned if they are believers or atheists. How can there even be a question of intercourse between the image and the word of Scripture when the person who decorates a church or paints a sacred image is an atheist?... Even to preach a sermon--something much less important in the Church than an image--one would not invite someone of a different religion or an atheist simply on the grounds that he is a brilliant speaker. But this is being done in the field of art. This shows the extent to which the very meaning of the sacred image has been lost in the Roman Catholic Church.

So true.