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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

Interview with Daniel Neculae

By Jonathan Pageau on June 16, 2016
Interview with Daniel Neculae

(Editor’s note: A few years ago we introduced our readers to the luscious work of Daniel Neculae, a Romanian iconographer now living in Luxembourg.  Last year Daniel gave his first workshop in the US which was attended Marek Czarnecki, veteran American iconographer and teacher himself who agreed to conduct and edit this interview for us.) […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged daniel neculae, iconography, teaching, workshop June 5, 2017

Contemporary Iconographers of Russia

By Philip Davydov & Olga Shalamova on June 10, 2016
Contemporary Iconographers of Russia

From December 11, 2015 to January, 19, 2016 (Moscow, Russia) “Tsar’s Tower” exhibition hall, in Kazansky railway station, hosted a large-scale exhibition entitled “Contemporary Iconographers of Russia”. The exhibit featured sixty iconographers, masters of mosaic and gold embroidery, jewelers as well as architects from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Vladimir, Archangelsk and other Russian cities. The exhibit showcased an […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography | Tagged contemporary, Fr. Zenon, iconography, Philip Davydov, Russia June 5, 2017

A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on May 12, 2016
A Matter of “Ethos”: An Interview with the Painter Markos Kampanis

We often forget that our contemporary art, although the offspring of the 20th century revolutionary avant-garde, has its own set of artistic dogmas, its form of “orthodoxy”, so to speak. Ironically, although the avant-garde might have shattered the stifling shackles of the Academy, it has now itself become another form of restrictive academy, forming an […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Theory | Tagged contemporary art, icon painting, liturgical art, modernism, murals, printmaking, Secular Art, Tradition June 5, 2017
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