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

By Aidan Hart on July 2, 2019
‘The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting’: A Chinese painting manual offers inspiration to iconographers

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 […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Chinese painting, detail, dexterity, discipline, freedom, icon painting, methods, practice, technique, Tradition July 1, 2019

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
 

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