The Romanian artist Camilian Demetrescu (1924-2012), after a initially successful avant-garde abstract phase, deeply engaged with realist sacred art, seeking to establish new forms for a Christian art which, in the contemporary post-secular age often seems no longer able to convey the sacred according to the uprising aesthetic sensitivity of the believers. His artistic journey was profoundly influenced by his encounter with the historian of religions Mircea Eliade, whose concepts of homo religious and the "camouflage of the sacred in the profane" had a lasting impact on Demetrescu's approach. This presentation focuses on Demetrescu's transition from abstraction to figurative painting, arguing that this shift should not be understood solely as a move to a new artistic phase. Rather, it can be seen as an iconophile response to the earlier, more iconoclastic phase of his work. Both phases reflect a deep spiritual search for sacred meaning. In this way, Demetrescu's artwork embodies the contemporary challenge Christian artists face in navigating between two distinct artistic forms—abstract art and figurative painting. These forms can, from a theological perspective, be interpreted as expressions of two different approaches to the divine: one cataphatic (affirmative) and the other apophatic (negative).