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Elena Murariu: Tribute to Romanian Martyrs

By Raluca Prelipceanu on October 13, 2020
Elena Murariu: Tribute to Romanian Martyrs

Elena Murariu’s exhibition “Martyrs”, as well as the album published on this occasion, bring to our attention the story of Romanian martyrs who prayed for their country and for the whole world. Some recognized, but most unknown, these martyrs are the gift of their people, an offering to God. Their bones cover the land of […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged contemporary icons, drawing, Elena Murariu, icon drawing, iconography, martyrs, romania, romanian icons November 12, 2020

A Year of Exploring Ancient Carving Through Drawing

By Jonathan Pageau on January 3, 2018
A Year of Exploring Ancient Carving Through Drawing

For several years already, I had known in my heart and in my hands that I needed to spend more time drawing. Because the art of icon carving had become a lesser vehicle for the traditions of iconography, it seemed pressing for me to spend more time exploring the best examples of relief art and […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged drawing, icon carving, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Patreon January 3, 2018

The Drawings of Elena Murariu

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on December 20, 2017
The Drawings of Elena Murariu

  There’s theory and then there’s practice. The one flows from the other and back again, unceasingly. Their interdependence is indissoluble. Likewise, there’s “inner” drawing and then there’s “external” drawing. The first unfolds and takes shape in the imagination; the latter is the former’s manifestation. A masterful drawing seems to be as if a concrete […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged drawing, experience, inner, outer, practice, process, Theory December 21, 2017

Notes on Method

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on June 30, 2017
Notes on Method

St. Mamas of Caesarea by Fr. Silouan Justiniano. Egg tempera on wood, 46 in. x 31 in.    One has to know technique, but one also needs to know art. An icon should be like a ‘painting’, like a prayer written with beautiful letters…There are many craftsmen, but few real iconographers. Make an icon, a […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Byzantine, color, drawing, Fr. Silouan Justiniano, gold, iconography, interpretation, lion, russian, saint mamas, Symbolism, technique July 4, 2017

Improving Icon Carving Through Drawing

By Jonathan Pageau on October 24, 2016
Improving Icon Carving Through Drawing

One of the complex questions that faces modern icon carving is the pervasive presence of the painted icon within the tradition of iconography.   For many reasons which I hope to write about in the future, icon carving became a somewhat marginalized art form as the centuries advanced.  And so for myself and the small group […]

Posted in Iconography, Minor Arts, News | Tagged drawing, icon carving, iconography, Jonathan Pageau October 24, 2016

Review of “Icon As Communion” by George Kordis

By Jonathan Pageau on December 18, 2015
Review of "Icon As Communion" by George Kordis

As an Orthodox convert in search of traditional Christian images, as someone who fled the contemporary art world to find a home in liturgical art, George Kordis‘ iconography challenges me in so many ways. Kordis’ virtuosity is undeniable and his mannerism both of form and color refer all at once to Byzantine art and to Modern and […]

Posted in Iconography, Reviews | Tagged book, book review, drawing, George Kordis, Icon As Communion, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, kordis February 24, 2016

Designing Icons (pt.3): New Icons

By Aidan Hart on November 26, 2012

This is post 3 of 9 in the series “Designing Icons” Aidan Hart gives us a full chapter on designing icons from his book “Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting.” Designing Icons (pt.1) Designing Icons (pt.2): Icon Prototypes Designing Icons (pt.3): New Icons Designing Icons (pt.4): Researching Festal Icons Designing Icons (pt.5): Conventions of Traditional […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Aidan Hart, alb, book, chasuble, dalmatic, design, drawing, fresco, gilding, hagiography, Icon, iconography, new icons, Orthodoxy, pallium, prototype, saint, saints, techniques, tonsure, Vestments April 1, 2017

Designing Icons (pt.2): Icon Prototypes

By Aidan Hart on November 19, 2012
Designing Icons (pt.2): Icon Prototypes

This is post 2 of 9 in the series “Designing Icons” Aidan Hart gives us a full chapter on designing icons from his book “Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting.” Designing Icons (pt.1) Designing Icons (pt.2): Icon Prototypes Designing Icons (pt.3): New Icons Designing Icons (pt.4): Researching Festal Icons Designing Icons (pt.5): Conventions of Traditional […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Aidan Hart, Archimandrate Alexi, book, design, drawing, Father Lukas of Xenophontos, fresco, gilding, hagiography, Icon, icon resources, iconography, Orthodoxy, Patrick Doulan, prototype, saint, saints, techniques, Vladimir Grygorenko, Zenon April 1, 2017

Designing Icons (pt.1)

By Aidan Hart on November 5, 2012
Designing Icons (pt.1)

This is post 1 of 9 in the series “Designing Icons” Aidan Hart gives us a full chapter on designing icons from his book “Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting.” Designing Icons (pt.1) Designing Icons (pt.2): Icon Prototypes Designing Icons (pt.3): New Icons Designing Icons (pt.4): Researching Festal Icons Designing Icons (pt.5): Conventions of Traditional […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Aidan Hart, book, design, drawing, fresco, gilding, hagiography, Icon, iconography, Orthodoxy, saint, saints, techniques April 1, 2017

Teaching Art in a Catholic School

By Jonathan Pageau on October 12, 2012
Teaching Art in a Catholic School

Some of you might be interested in reading a short article I wrote for the New Liturgical Movement.  I teach art once a week in a small Traditionalist Catholic school.  It has been a great joy to teach in a context so friendly to liturgical art.  On my first day, as I was explaining what […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged art, Catholic, curriculum, drawing, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, liturgical art, liturgical arts, new liturgical movement, students July 14, 2014
 

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