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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

Materiality Refined: The Carvings of Andrei Raileanu

By Jonathan Pageau on December 13, 2016
Materiality Refined:  The Carvings of Andrei Raileanu

Andre Raileanu is a young Romanian icon carver I have been keeping my eye on for a while now.  We have already written a few articles on the amazing things happening in Romania ( here, here and here) but Raileanu’s exploration of stone carving stands very much on its own as both an exception and […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Minor Arts | Tagged andrei raileanu, Carving, icon carving, iconography, romania, stone June 5, 2017

Interview With Nikola Sarić

By Jonathan Pageau on December 6, 2016
Interview  With Nikola Sarić

Tell us a bit about your formative years; how you became interested in art and icon painting in particular. I grew up next to a talented father, so watching him painting was the first step towards art. When I was a child I was reading my father’s art books and I can still remember how […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged iconography, illustration, Nicolas Saric, serbia June 5, 2017

As if Through a Child’s Inner Eye: The Contemporary Icons of Maxim Sheshukov

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on October 4, 2016
As if Through a Child's Inner Eye:  The Contemporary Icons of Maxim Sheshukov

The distinctively fresh and masterful work of Maxim Sheshukov, a contemporary iconographer working in Sviyazhsk (Kazan region of Russia), is another example of the best synthesis of creative interpretation and conformity to Tradition which we can find nowadays. His work was mentioned in passing in a previous article on Contemporary Iconographers of Russia, but I thought it […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Abstraction, charicature, Icon, iconography, Living Tradition June 5, 2017

An Interview with Iconographer Seraphim O’Keefe

By Andrew Gould on September 7, 2016
An Interview with Iconographer Seraphim O’Keefe

Editor’s Note: Seraphim O’Keefe is a promising young iconographer who has already done some remarkable work. We are pleased to feature his very interesting life story here, as well as images of his most recent major project – wall paintings at St. Cyprian Orthodox Church in Midlothian, Virginia. It is clear from the quality of […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged cyprian, gregory kroug, iconographer, interview, keim, midlothian, Orthodox, seraphim o'keefe, silicate paint June 5, 2017

Contemporary Byzantine Painting: An Interview With Fikos

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on August 30, 2016
Contemporary Byzantine Painting: An Interview With Fikos

Contemporary Byzantine Painting:  Street Art and the Icon in Convergence An Interview with Fikos   By Fr. Silouan Justiniano Graffiti is one of those art forms that seems to have no relationship whatsoever with the liturgical art of the icon. Unlike the icon’s inextricable reliance on Tradition, graffiti appears to embody an anti-traditional and revolutionary […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Theory | Tagged graffiti, Icons, mural art, mythology, street art, the sacred, Tradition June 5, 2017

Delicate Fluidity: The Icons of Anton and Ekatarina Daineko

By Jonathan Pageau on July 7, 2016
Delicate Fluidity: The Icons of Anton and Ekatarina Daineko

Anton and Ekaterina Daineko are a married couple from Minsk, Belarus. Their work in panel icons and frescos stands out for its fluidity in drawing as well as its subtle use of color and highlight. As they are giving some master classes in Vermont this year, I thought it would be a good opportunity to […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged Belarus, Daineko, fresco, iconography June 5, 2017

Between Discipline and Joy: An Interview with Vladimir Gorbik

By Vladimir Morosan on June 23, 2016
Between Discipline and Joy: An Interview with Vladimir Gorbik

Interviewed by Natalia Gorenok Translated by Vladimir Morosan The art of Church singing as an integral part of the life of the Church, like the Church itself [in Russia], is experiencing a period of revival. Along the way, there are still many difficulties, because many of the traditional practices among choirmasters and church singers were […]

Posted in Artist Features, Music | Tagged PaTRAM, patriarch tikhon choir, Russia, vladimir gorbik June 5, 2017
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