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

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on October 25, 2017
Imagination, Expression, Icon… Pt. II: Concerning Nous, Techne & Tradition

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 […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Abstraction, academicism, creativity, icon painting, Naturalism, nous, Pentecost, pictorial, principles, styles, techne, Tradition October 24, 2017

Pentecost For The Zombie Apocalypse

By Jonathan Pageau on September 20, 2017
Pentecost For The Zombie Apocalypse

(This talk on the meaning of the Zombie and on the place of monsters in the world was given at the OCA Diocese of the South Annual conference in Chattanooga, on July 27, 2017) We live in a time of monsters. I announce this to you but I think you already know that. We only need […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Jonathan Pageau, margin, monsters, oca, Pentecost, st-christopher, Symbolism, zombies September 21, 2017

Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

By Jonathan Pageau on October 28, 2015
Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.

Christological and Pneumatological Images of the Church In early Christian art, there developed a series of complementary visual relationships which I have discussed on numerous occasions and have come to often characterize as the right hand and the left  hand of Christ.  These elements, like the ass and the ox, St-Peter and St-Paul, the good […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged ascension, church, Jonathan Pagaeu, Pentecost, Symbolism, theotokos October 28, 2015

Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher

By Jonathan Pageau on July 8, 2013
Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher

This is post 1 of 2 in the series “The Dog Headed Icon of St-Christopher” Jonathan Pageau traces the pattern of meaning in Dog-headed representations of St-Christopher and how they relate to our experience of the world. Understanding The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher The Dog-Headed Icon of St-Christopher (pt.2): Encountering Saint-Christopher   This post is […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Ark, Armenian, Cain, Caleb, Canaan, Canaanite, cynocephali, cynocephalus, dog-headed, Elijah, Elisha, Ethiopian, eunuch, fantasy, flood, foreigner, garments of skin, giant, Icon, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Joshua, monster, moses, Orthodox, Pentecost, periphery, sci-fi, st-christopher, st-mercurios, st-mercurius July 17, 2017
 

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