Victoria Hinz "The Mask"

Lane talks about the mask, which conceals and reveals God's glory. In the book, Lane talks about how Pablo Picasso was fascinated with tribal masks from Africa. This becomes relevant for me, because I am an art history major. It explains how Picasso he wanted to "find the mask that gave life, the mask that opened new possibilities in the very act of concealing the old. He wanted to invoke his viewers to "invest... with its iconic power- the lost power of the mask". He obsessed over it. He wanted to be able to reveal the mask. In class we mostly talked about how nature can reveal the mask. It was interesting reading another point of view on the subject.