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Elena Murariu: Tribute to Romanian Martyrs

By Raluca Prelipceanu on October 13, 2020
Elena Murariu: Tribute to Romanian Martyrs

Elena Murariu’s exhibition “Martyrs”, as well as the album published on this occasion, bring to our attention the story of Romanian martyrs who prayed for their country and for the whole world. Some recognized, but most unknown, these martyrs are the gift of their people, an offering to God. Their bones cover the land of […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged contemporary icons, drawing, Elena Murariu, icon drawing, iconography, martyrs, romania, romanian icons November 12, 2020

A Life of Icons – Interview with Anna Gouriev

By Jonathan Pageau on September 21, 2020
A Life of Icons - Interview with Anna Gouriev

Anna Pokrovsky Gouriev is a professional iconographer working in the United States. Originally from Russia, she is the daughter of Ksenia Pokrovsky who was one of the instrumental voices for the rediscovery of traditional iconography in the 20th century. Jonathan Pageau teaches with her at the Hexaemeron School of Ecclesial Arts, and it is in […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Anna Gouriev, Hexaemeron, icon painting, iconography, Jonathan Pageau, Ksenia Pokrovsky October 14, 2020

‘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

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

Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018)

By Benedict Sheehan on December 6, 2018
Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018)

Liturgical Music in America Liturgical music is closely bound up with the people that sing it. Language, history, culture, experience, education, social class, all of these things shape the sound-world of worship. The people that founded Orthodox parishes in America more than a century ago—for the most part, immigrants from Russia, Greece, Eastern Europe, and […]

Posted in Artist Features, Liturgy, Music, News | Tagged American, Benedict Sheehan, composition, Divine Liturgy, English, Music, PaTRAM, russian December 7, 2018

A Surpassing Gentleness: An Interview with Iconographer Ann Margitich

By Andrew Gould on August 1, 2018
Iconography of Ann Margitich

It is my pleasure today to present the work of Matushka Ann Margitich, iconographer based in Santa Rosa, CA. Her work has a special place in my heart, my favorite among the many icon painters I am privileged to know. She paints the most kindly and gentle figures, with a delicate beauty of color and […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Andrew Gould, ann margitich, egg tempera, Icons, icoographer, Orthodox, Ouspensky, Santa Rosa September 24, 2018

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

The Byzantine Sculpture of Michael Lucas

By Andrew Gould on February 19, 2018
The Byzantine Sculpture of Michael Lucas

The following is an interview with sculptor Michael Lucas. Mr. Lucas is an accomplished artist who currently focuses on Byzantine-inspired carving in stone. Andrew Gould is working with Michael on an ongoing project to build a baptistery in South Carolina. A. Gould: You started iconographic carving late in your life. Tell us about your background as an artist. […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Byzantine, Icon, iconography, michael lucas, penn state, relief, sculptor, sculpture, stone carving February 19, 2018

The Drawings of Elena Murariu

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on December 20, 2017
The Drawings of Elena Murariu

  There’s theory and then there’s practice. The one flows from the other and back again, unceasingly. Their interdependence is indissoluble. Likewise, there’s “inner” drawing and then there’s “external” drawing. The first unfolds and takes shape in the imagination; the latter is the former’s manifestation. A masterful drawing seems to be as if a concrete […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged drawing, experience, inner, outer, practice, process, Theory December 21, 2017

Symeon van Donkelaar: Local Color in Icons

By Symeon van Donkelaar on June 14, 2017
Symeon van Donkelaar: Local Color in Icons

(Editor’s comment:  Symeon van Donkelaar is a Canadian iconographer.  I find his work fascinating as it is an exploration of the flatter and more stylized threads of iconography, Coptic art, early Medieval Spanish art as well as what was developed in Central and Northern Europe before the Gothic period. Lines are bold and highly calligraphic. Color […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged canada, color, Icons, pigment, romanesque, Symeon van Donkelaar November 29, 2017
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