The pleasures of commissioning an icon

Commissioning an icon is an art with a sacred space in your heart. It is a move to brighten up many homes who are struggling over fulvous issues. When you commission an icon, you are creating something of great value that takes time, prayer, and dedication. The icons that are grounded in maintaining artistry, holiness and the integrity are best tools to speak to people of all Christian denominations. 

You may have thought that it is not possible for a contemporary artist to work in the wake of the great Byzantine masters. And yet, Simoneau Hales has proved this concept wrong b making her work consonant with our times. Holy Icons is an old style of making people believe in divine power and following the path of humanity with their teachings. This concept originated in the very early centuries of Christianity. Holy Face with dimensions: 12 x 14″, Creator of the Universe with dimensions: 8 x 10″, Saint George and the Dragon with dimensions: 8 x 10″ and Saint Camillus de Lellis  with dimensions: 9 x 12″ is an initiate to tell the story of the Gospel and old testament with the usage of visual symbolic language. Commissioning an icon is a spiritual method to show us the deep relationship with the God.

 

Icons for prayers: a sacred activity

In the chaos of desires and big fortune, the common man has forgotten the importance of divine power in its life. The artists of icons for prayers is presenting physical as well as spiritual experience. Any onlooker by utilizing his/her sense of smell, can open windows of eternity hidden in his personality. These icons serve as mediums of instruction for the uneducated faithful fellows. Imagine the effect of a screen shielding the altar and depicting scenes from the New Testament, church feasts, and popular saints.

 

The icons of Saint Luke with dimensions: 12″ x 9″, Transfiguration with dimensions: 24″ x 18″, Madonna with dimensions: 17″ x 11″ and Saint Joan with dimensions: 10″ x  8″ establish peaceful atmosphere surrounding you and you decide to pray wherever you are. The list of excuses and a new personality emerges instantly. The aim behind all kinds of incarnation is to express a saint or teaching mystically. No one can reproduce a saint or any incident from Old Testament. Icons for prayers have been part of orthodox spirituality for approximately 1500 years and there is no other smart technique to make others understand holiness within him/her.

Modern religious icons

Modern religious icons may from the start have all the earmarks of being unfamiliar to the advanced imaginative reasonableness, objects of a past time to be looked at in galleries. A long way from being fossilized, notwithstanding, this Christian reverential practice is being kept alive by numerous craftsmen who create these icons.

 

Maxwell Lawton's work, Man of Distresses—Christ with Helps, painted amidst the Guides emergency. The customary Man of Distresses topic portrays a despondent Christ, delegated with thistles and showing his injuries. Lawton's piece has Christ snared to an IV trickle and canvassed in malignancy wounds run of the mill of numerous Guides victims. Behind the scenes, Jesus' words from Matthew 25:40 are cited in three dialects: "The Lord will answer, 'really I advise you, whatever you accomplished for one of the least of these siblings of mine, you accomplished for me.'

 

Nikola Sarik owns some modern religious icons. His most notable piece to date is The Heavenly Saints of Libya, an accolade for the 21 Christians executed by ISIS in February 2015. The differentiation among antiquated and present day is striking; Christ, portrayed in a customary way, accepts the killed men wearing orange jumpsuits, while their covered captors remain behind them.

How modern religious icons touch your emotions

What Prophet Ezekiel said few years ago; is coming true in modern religions icons. Many senior artists may take it a foreign concept to the age old style of making icons. Prophet Ezekiel with dimensions: 24 x 18″, Archangel Michael with dimensions: 10 x 8″, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with dimensions: 18×14 1/2″ and Archangel Gabriel with dimensions: 9×7″ is a true effort from heart to keep alive traditional medium in new impressive style.

 

Christine Simoneau Hales is such artist who has succeeded in doing work appropriately to the Byzantine masters. so, and doing so brilliantly. Such sincerity to encourage the masses toward their religion has made her work consonant with our times. Madonna with dimensions: 17″ x 11″ and Saint Joan with dimensions: 10″ x 8″ is a seamless combination of ancient religious symbolism and contemporary imagery. The makers of modern religious icons believe in using that language or medium which the onlookers love to see.

 

Divine aura of our modern saint icons

A human mind gets attracted more too visualized icons than holy books. The busy scheduling and tough phase of education put hurdle in bringing our little children near to divine lord. Modern Saint icons set an aura of divine whosoever looks at it. The sudden realization that regular prayer has to be on top priority in midst of all worldly pleasures and duties. The most recent saints canonized by Pope Francis include Elizabeth Hesselblad. She is a Lutheran convert who hid Jews during World War II.

Modern saint icons present a huge attractive platform that binds many to saints, Holy Scriptures, and commissions. Giving a saint status to Christian religious preachers is an old tradition by the Roman Catholic Church - the world's largest Christian faith. Recently they have announced that Mother Teresa will be canonization after nineteen years of her death. These big events dig deep in the mind of our modern generation. The growing incidents of violence are giving signal that our masses must bring near to divine Lord. Knowing the real purpose of your life, you receive real meaning of your existence on this earth.