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Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift…Part III

By Todor Mitrovic on July 6, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift...Part III

    On the Need for the New Paradigm   First, the suggested shift in paradigm is not just playing with words, nor is it merely for amusement or for increasing our vocabulary. Neither are we following some fashionable intellectual trend. From the conventional meaning of the term paradigm, I would emphasize its ‘active’ semantic aspects. These suppose […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged artistic language, canon, church art, cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, Icon, icon painting, paradigm, rules, Tradition July 6, 2020

Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift

By Todor Mitrovic on June 23, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Editorial note: This post is the first of a series of four which touch on the topic of “canonicity” in icon painting. The series consists of an expanded version of an article previously published in Serbian and in Russian. * The author, Todor Mitrović, is one of the foremost representatives of the icon painting revival […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged canon, Canonicity, Icon, iconography, juridical, law, prescriptions, rule July 1, 2020

Brilliant Darkness: On St. Dionysios the Areopagite’s Blue Halo

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 13, 2019
Brilliant Darkness: On St. Dionysios the Areopagite's Blue Halo

  …Timothy, my friend, my advice to you as you look for a sight of the mysterious things, is to leave behind you everything perceived and understood, everything perceptible and understandable, all that is not and all that is, and, with your understanding laid aside, to strive upward as much as you can towards union […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged areopagite, Byzantine, dionysios, Icon, iconography, pseudo-dionysios, silouan justiniano, Symbolism, uncreated light April 15, 2019

The Icon of The Last Judgement

By Jonathan Pageau on September 24, 2018
The Icon of The Last Judgement

The icon of the Last Judgement is one of the most complex Christian images.  As depicting the final things, it is a synthesis of the cosmic mystery. As an image of judgement, it is also the place where everything is resolved by Christ.  From the very first moments in my burgeoning interest in iconology, I […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Icon, iconography, iconology, Jonathan Pageau, last judgement, Symbolism September 26, 2018

An American Shrine to Honor the Russian Royal Martyrs

By Andrew Gould on July 13, 2018
An American Shrine to Honor the Russian Royal Martyrs

It has been my particular honor to create a magnificent shrine and reliquary for the Russian Royal Martyrs. The shrine was commissioned by an American convert to Orthodoxy as a gift to the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, a Russian Orthodox monastery in West Virginia, USA. It was installed in time to commemorate the centenary […]

Posted in Minor Arts | Tagged Andrew Gould, Czar Nicholas II, Hermitage of the Holy Cross, Icon, iconography, inlay, Jonathan Pageau, kiot, marquetry, Natalia Aglitskaya, Passion Bearers, reliquary, romanov, Royal Martyrs, Russian Orthodox, saints, shrine, West Virginia March 26, 2019

The Making of a New Icon: “Christ Breaking the Bonds of Animal Suffering”

By Aidan Hart on May 7, 2018
The Making of a New Icon: “Christ Breaking the Bonds of Animal Suffering”

Sometimes I am commissioned to paint an icon of a saint for whom nothing yet exists, or at least no satisfactory icon. This is usually a pre-schism Western saint. But more rarely, the subject is a new theme, a new emphasis or combination. This was the case when Dr Christine Nellist approached me to create […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Aidan Hart, animal kingdom, animals, Byzantine, Christ breaking the bonds of suffering, dog, Icon, iconography, Orthodox May 7, 2018

The Byzantine Sculpture of Michael Lucas

By Andrew Gould on February 19, 2018
The Byzantine Sculpture of Michael Lucas

The following is an interview with sculptor Michael Lucas. Mr. Lucas is an accomplished artist who currently focuses on Byzantine-inspired carving in stone. Andrew Gould is working with Michael on an ongoing project to build a baptistery in South Carolina. A. Gould: You started iconographic carving late in your life. Tell us about your background as an artist. […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Byzantine, Icon, iconography, michael lucas, penn state, relief, sculptor, sculpture, stone carving February 19, 2018

Local Colors of Conestoga: Woad Blue

By Symeon van Donkelaar on November 28, 2017
Local Colors of Conestoga: Woad Blue

This is post 1 of 1 in the series “Local Colors of Conestoga” I’ve wanted to write for a while about what I’ve learned about making local colors—especially from an iconographic perspective. With this year’s harvest of indigo blue from the studio’s woad plants, I’ve taken that opportunity to do so. My hope is to […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged Icon, iconography, pigment, Symeon van Donkelaar, techniques November 28, 2017

Imagination, Expression, Icon…Pt. III: Concerning Expression

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on November 9, 2017
Imagination, Expression, Icon...Pt. III: Concerning Expression

This is part 3 of a series: Part 1, Part 2.   In general the artificial image, modeled after its prototype, brings the likeness of the prototype into matter and acquires a share in its form by means of the thought of the artists and the impress of his hands. This is true of the […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged craftsmanship, expression, Icon, imagination, interpretation, Logos, nous, prototype, sketches November 8, 2017

Imagination, Expression, Icon: Reclaiming the Internal Prototype

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on October 10, 2017
Imagination, Expression, Icon: Reclaiming the Internal Prototype

Editor’s Note: This article is a revised and expanded version of the talk with the same title given at the symposium, Living Tradition: Painting Sacred Icons in the 21st Century, organized by the Orthodox Arts Journal and which took place on May 23, 2015, at Holy Ascension Orthodox Church, Mt. Pleasant, SC. This post is […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged craftsmanship, Creative Act, expression, form, Icon, idea, imagination, matter, styles, Tradition October 10, 2017
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