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Institute of Sacred Arts hosts academic round-table on “Tradition and Innovation in the Arts of the Orthodox Church”

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on March 23, 2022
Institute of Sacred Arts hosts academic round-table on “Tradition and Innovation in the Arts of the Orthodox Church”

  The Institute of Sacred Arts (ISA) at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVS) is currently privileged to have Dr. George Kordis as its inaugural artist in residence for the Spring of this academic year. On Thursday, March 17, a group of distinguished scholars gathered around him at St. Vladimir’s Seminary for an academic round-table […]

Posted in News | Tagged academic, Architecture, discussion, George Kordis, iconography, innovation, Institute of Sacred Arts, marginal psalters, Music, round-table, scholars, St. Vladimir's, Tradition March 23, 2022

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

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

The problem of art in Anglophone Orthodoxy: a review essay

By Richard Barrett on January 24, 2015
The problem of art in Anglophone Orthodoxy: a review essay

Recently, an online exchange about public outreach efforts with respect to various aspects of Orthodox music and music of Orthodox composers led the following comment by a discussant: What exactly is so “Orthodox” about any kind of pure music? […] [T]o associate any composer with the Church is an empty exercise, since music has only […]

Posted in Music | Tagged art, Arvo Pärt, capella romana, church, George Kordis, Ivan Moody, John Taverner, Jonathan Jackson, Mikko Sidoroff, Music, Neil Gaiman, Orthodox, richard barrett January 29, 2015

Byzantium – Celebrating The Icon in Ottawa

By Jonathan Pageau on October 13, 2014
Byzantium - Celebrating The Icon in Ottawa

The first Ottawa International Byzantine Arts Symposium wrapping up at the beginning of this month surrounded the work of master iconographer George Kordis with an exhibition, 2 concerts and an icon painting workshop.  I had no idea what to expect going in to this event. I had been contacted by the event organizer, Lesia Maruschak only […]

Posted in Iconography, News, Reviews | Tagged George Kordis, Icon, iconography, Lesia Maruschak, Orthodox, ottawa, Studio Ikona, workshop October 13, 2014
 

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