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

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on November 22, 2017
Imagination, Expression, Icon...Pt. IV: Encountering the Internal Prototype

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 […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Contemplation, creative, epression, fear, icon painting, iconography, imagination, internal, interpretation, license, Living Tradition, mechanistic, prototypes, unique December 5, 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

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

Jordan Peterson, Religious Symbolism and Popular Culture

By Jonathan Pageau on June 20, 2017
Jordan Peterson, Religious Symbolism and Popular Culture

For 5 years now I have been writing on many subjects for OAJ. Most of my attention has been to elucidate the patterns in iconography and liturgical arts and how these patterns relate to Scripture, to other traditions all the while acting as a map of how we should live in the world as Christians. […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged interpretation, Jonathan Pageau, jordan peterson, pepe the frog, popular culture, st-christopher, Symbolism June 20, 2017

The Recovery of Symbolism

By Jonathan Pageau on October 30, 2012
The Recovery of Symbolism

“Symbolism” is a term that has become quite diluted in the past 500 years. Since the middle ages, the notion of the symbol has undergone a deep mutation due to the immeasurable changes in our experience of knowledge and meaning.  Symbolism has been progressively reduced from underlying our very cosmological world view, to now being a […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged eucharist, iconography, interpretation, Jonathan Pageau, liturgy, Maximos, Maximus, Orthodox Arts Journal, Protestant, Symbolism July 4, 2017
 

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