Painting Françoise Bürtz at the confluence of modernity and sacrum
Painting Françoise Bürtz at the confluence of modernity and sacrum

Summary/Abstract: French contemporary painter Françoise Bürtz has studied the art of painting in Paris since 1962. In a meeting with the French avant-garde, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and at the same time philosophers pioneering the path of modern art such as Jean Paul Sartre, André Malraux could well get to know its expressions and assumptions. The art of which she encountered was temporary, and creation devoid of contemplation became a production cycle, resulting in the soulless creatures of rapid invention. Françoise Bürtz, discouraged by art deprived of its depth of art, began looking for something else. She abandoned the environment that could provide her an artistic career. After experiencing a personal conversion to the path of faith, she took the initiative to create an art that would lead her recipients to personal contact with God. In working out the original assumptions of the new style of creation, helped her contact with the stigma of Marthe Robin, the exegete maker Mess’AJE Jacques Bernard, as well as the stay in the Holy Land, the theological studies in Friborg, and a trip to Russia. Based on these experiences as well as the contemplation of the biblical texts and the Fathers of the Church, she created a new civilization of the religious image in which it combines the achievements of contemporary art with the attempt to express the invisible. Her numerous works are a kind of great theological synthesis, which is an important aid in the biblical education of adults on several continents. This art combines modern expressions with the depths of the mystery of faith effectively leading the modern man to meet the sacred.

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