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A Double Standard? Some Clarifications on Icon Painting Theory

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on July 26, 2017
A Double Standard? Some Clarifications on Icon Painting Theory

Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.                          ‒Matt. 13:52   It is the irrational impulses that yearn for innovation.                 […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Abstraction, innovation, modernism, Pseudo-Traditionalism, Tradition December 5, 2017

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

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on May 12, 2016
A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

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 […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Theory | Tagged contemporary art, icon painting, liturgical art, modernism, murals, printmaking, Secular Art, Tradition June 5, 2017

On the Gift of Art…Part V: The Threshold

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on May 4, 2016
On the Gift of Art...Part V: The Threshold

This is post 5 of 5 in the series “On the Gift of Art… But, What Art” On the Gift of Art…Part V: The Threshold  By Fr. Silouan Justiniano There is, then a distinction to be drawn between a significant [meaningful] and liberating art, the art of those who in their performances are celebrating God…in […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged conceptualism, liturgical art, meaning, modernism, postmodernism, profane, sacred, Secular Art, subjectivism, Symbolism, threshold art April 7, 2017

The Icon Painting Tradition and Modern Art: Hermeneutical Considerations

By Federico José Xamist on April 21, 2016
The Icon Painting Tradition and Modern Art: Hermeneutical Considerations

 To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was’. It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.  Walter Benjamin In 1557, the Corpus Historiae Byzantinae, a series initiated by the German monk and humanist Hieronymus Wolf[1], was published. Ever since, the region […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Byzantine Art, iconography, modernism April 19, 2016

Hope and Fragility: An Interview With Neo Coptic Iconographer Stéphane René

By Jonathan Pageau on September 7, 2015
Hope and Fragility: An Interview With Neo Coptic Iconographer Stéphane René

The Coptic tradition of iconography is one of which we know very little about in the West. So many of the ancient monuments were destroyed or came to disrepair as Copts in Egypt were subject to Islamic rule in the 7th century.  It is only recently that the old monuments are being rediscovered, cleaned and restored properly. […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, News, Theory | Tagged Coptic, egypt, fresco, iconography, isaac fanous, modernism, neo coptic, stephane rene June 5, 2017

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

On the Relative Autonomy of the Icon: Converging Aesthetics in Early Modernism

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on December 13, 2013
On the Relative Autonomy of the Icon: Converging Aesthetics in Early Modernism

It is well to remember that a picture- before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote- is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order. – Maurice Denis, ‘Definition du Neo-traditionisme’, Art et Critique, 1890. In the icon …Colors are colors; red is red. Colors do not imitate […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged aesthetics, history, Icons, modernism July 8, 2014
 

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