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‘Being’, The Art and Life of Father Sophrony

By Christabel Helena Anderson on September 3, 2020
‘Being’, The Art and Life of Father Sophrony

Archimandrite Sophrony, painting Christ at the Last Supper, early 1980s, the Monastery of St John the Baptist, Refectory.[1]  Image: ©The Stavropegic Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, Essex.   Editorial note: This is the second part of a series on the artistic path and iconographic legacy of Saint Sophrony (Sakharov) as seen through a collection […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Reviews, Theory, Writers | Tagged abyss, art, biography, book review, Elder Sophrony, England, English Iconography, essex, Father Sophrony, icon painting, iconographer, iconography, liturgical art, Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Paris, Russia, Russian Orthodox, Saint Silouan, St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony, St. Sophrony the Athonite, Theology, Tradition September 4, 2020

Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift…Part IV

By Todor Mitrović on July 13, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift...Part IV

  How to Conceive a Paradigm Shift? In the end, of course, we cannot naïvely expect that this change of paradigm can be imposed by some “official directive.” As the “chair and apple” example shows, such change happens neither easily nor suddenly. The need for change can be voiced, or even generated by an individual, […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged art history, conceptual metaphors, diachronic, expressive power, icon painting, idea, internalize, invention, paradigm shift, studio, synchronic, Tradition, utilitarian, visual language July 13, 2020

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…Part II

By Todor Mitrovic on June 29, 2020
Canon: Time for a Paradigm Shift...Part II

    Are There Rules and Where to Find Them?   However, how can we discuss the concept of a list of icon-painting rules if there is the slightest possibility that it might be imaginary? First, let us recall that imaginary entities can define our behavior just as much as physically existing ones. Let us […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged canon, Canonicity, Icons, juridical, language, oral, painters' manuals, painting, rules, scholia, technical, Tradition, unwritten, unwritten painters' tradition, visual, visual language July 1, 2020

The Icon Painting of Fr. Stamatis Skliris: A Call for Authenticity

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 21, 2020
The Icon Painting of Fr. Stamatis Skliris: A Call for Authenticity

It could be said that Fr. Stamatis Skliris ranks as one of the most important, albeit idiosyncratic and challenging, contemporary iconographers residing in Greece today: idiosyncratic, because his style stands out in a category of its own, in its personal, expressive potency and unique, at times odd, pictorial synthesis; challenging, because he often breaks all […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Authenticity, creativity, Expressionism, icon painting, Impressionism, modern art, Pointillism, Tradition, uniqueness, unrepeatability April 23, 2020

‘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

Towards a Great Pictorial Synthesis: Interview with Ioan Popa

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 16, 2018
Towards a Great Pictorial Synthesis: Interview with Ioan Popa

The following is an interview with Romanian master iconographer Ioan Popa. He’s one of the leading representatives of the contemporary icon revival in Romania, focusing in both panel and monumental fresco painting. Our conversation touches on his artistic development, aspects of the professional training of iconographers in Romania and the challenge of creative engagement with […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Architecture, creativity, fresco, iconographer, iconography, Icons, liturgical art, panel painting, Tradition April 17, 2018

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

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

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
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