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Posts Tagged ‘icon painting’

Fr Gregory Kroug – An Exhibition Honoring the 50th Anniversary of his Repose

By Seraphim O'Keefe | October 8, 2019 | 10

  The Exhibition In late June, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend a week in Paris, attending an exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary of the repose of iconographer monk Gregory Kroug. The event ran from May 14th through June 30th, and included a curated exhibition of Kroug’s iconography displayed in the…

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‘The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting’: A Chinese painting manual offers inspiration to iconographers

By Aidan Hart | July 2, 2019 | 6

Truth is truth wherever it is found. In fact, it is all the more delicious when found in unexpected places. I was at the opening of an exhibition of The St John’s Bible, for which I had been one of the illuminators, and fell into conversation with one of the professors at Minnesota University. We…

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Imagination, Expression, Icon…Pt. IV: Encountering the Internal Prototype

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano | November 22, 2017 | 1

This is the 4th and last post in the series “Imagination, Expression, Icon: Reclaiming the Internal Prototype”: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.     When you make an icon, do not copy it exactly… -Elder Sophrony[i]   Now that we’ve clearly defined the terms nous, techne, Tradition, imagination and expression, we’re in a better…

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Imagination, Expression, Icon… Pt. II: Concerning Nous, Techne & Tradition

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano | October 25, 2017

This is part 2 of a series: Part 1   Because they are the works of God, who is Himself good, the senses and sensible objects are good; but they cannot in any way be compared with the intellect [nous] and with intelligible realities. -St. Thalassios, On Love, Self-control and Life in Accordance with the…

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

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano | May 12, 2016 | 4

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…

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A Symptom of Modern Blindness – Further Thoughts on the Phrase “To Write an Icon”

By Andrew Gould | December 30, 2013 | 20

This is post 2 of 3 in the series “To Write or to Paint an Icon” Several contributors go over the common debate on whether one “writes” or “paints” an icon. Is “Write” Wrong?: A Discussion of Iconology Lingo A Symptom of Modern Blindness – Further Thoughts on the Phrase “To Write an Icon” From…

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