221 - Fr. Silouan Justiniano - Icons and Contemporary Art
The Symbolic World
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The Importance of Traditional Achinography
i think we have to take this back, jonathan, to the revival. And i think we are heirs of the revival of icon painting and the sacred arts in the orthodox church. That's really important to understand that as the iconography almost diedit didn't die, but it came very close. I mean, all the tropes roman art are there, but theyv all been reoriented. The clothing has all the same form, but all the sensuousnesss is kind of tamed in. So why couldn't we do that again, like you said, with some of these powerful modern contemporary artists that have been investigating some aspects of human experience? Ah, that's
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