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An Iconographer, a Contemporary Artist and a Movie Director Walk into a Bar

By Jonathan Pageau on March 4, 2019
An Iconographer, a Contemporary Artist and a Movie Director Walk into a Bar

Last September, I was invited by Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto to speak on a public panel as a prelude to the annual massive art event called Nuit Blanche. Wycliffe college is a somewhat conservative Anglican school, and on this panel were three artists who identify as Christian and who were asked to […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged contemporary art, gloria kim, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, panel discussion, phil irish March 13, 2019

Sacred Art in Secular Terms

By Jonathan Pageau on March 1, 2018
Sacred Art in Secular Terms

Last year I was invited to speak at the Northwest Catholic Family Education Conference.  The event was going to be quite open to the public and was dealing with the notion of Truth, the truth seen in different walks of life.  I was asked to speak about the truth in art and discuss my own […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged art, contemporary art, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, modern art, secularism March 5, 2018

A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on May 12, 2016
A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

We often forget that our contemporary art, although the offspring of the 20th century revolutionary avant-garde, has its own set of artistic dogmas, its form of “orthodoxy”, so to speak. Ironically, although the avant-garde might have shattered the stifling shackles of the Academy, it has now itself become another form of restrictive academy, forming an […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Theory | Tagged contemporary art, icon painting, liturgical art, modernism, murals, printmaking, Secular Art, Tradition June 5, 2017

Interview with Serbian Iconographer Todor Mitrovic: On the Dialogue Between the Sacred and Secular Arts

By Philip Davydov & Olga Shalamova on March 3, 2016
Interview with Serbian Iconographer Todor Mitrovic: On the Dialogue Between the Sacred and Secular Arts

This article was revised and proofread by Jennifer Leslie. Todor Mitrovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1972. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU) University of Arts, Belgrade in 1997. He was awarded a Master of Arts Degree in 2006 and Doctor of Arts in 2015. The title of his PhD art […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Theory | Tagged Byzantine, contemporary, contemporary art, iconography, interview, Orthodox, serbia, Todor Mitrovic June 5, 2017

Contemporary Art as Theophany

By Fr Ivan Moody on February 10, 2015
Contemporary Art as Theophany

To-day in England we think as little of art as though we had been caught up from earth and set in some windy side street of the universe among the stars. Disgust at the daily deathbed which is Europe has made us hunger and thirst for the kindly ways of righteousness, and we want to save our souls. […]

Posted in Iconography, Music, Theory | Tagged contemporary art, cubism, George Kordis, Icon, Ivan Moody, James Dillon, Kosta Bogdanović, Lazar Vozarević, modernism, Music, Skliris Nymphios February 10, 2015
 

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