Artists like Picasso, Braque, and in a different way Kandinsky, reduced the visual field to its individual components and re-arranged that field for the purpose of interpretation. Picasso's Guernica is a case in point, a painting Paul Tillich called the most religious artwork of the 20 th century. By the end of the 20 th century, no one questioned the insertion of the artist into the artwork. Performance art displays the evanescent nature of all attempts to describe reality because the artwork is gone when the performance is finished. We construct meaning through words as the painter does with paint.
Meaning is interpretation.
We become attentive and engaged in the process of crafting a language about God, because we do not want to communicate any error, which for Christian preachers means deviation from the best understanding we can build of the biblical God. The proliferation of texts creates an issue, which is that texts previously valorized are easily forgotten. They are forgotten, first, in the sense that they are no longer part of the cultural memory. There is a second sense in which texts are not remembered, because they are not retained. Because so many texts clamor for our attention, we suffer information overload and we no longer remember ones we once held to be important.