Painting icons has been there since the beginning of Christianity but our iconographers are climbing on the next ladder of commission religious art. These professionals’ artists feel that development of a living form is extremely essential to woo our modern generation who is drowned in jungle of gadgets. They love to begin the icon work by contemplating that piece of work like who will benefit from that religious art form? The finding of path is a kind of religious preparation that effects heavily in the mind of the user who hangs them in his living room or study room etc.
Constantine Cavarnos has
wonderfully explained this fact in his book Byzantine Sacred Art: “Byzantine
art has a religious function. It seeks to express spiritual things in order
thereby to help man penetrate the mysteries of the Christian religion …” Our
new batches of iconographers are paying deep attention to the use of gilding in
their religious art. There is Deep Ocean of gilding process that everyone gets
the space to his best intention. To sum up, Commission religious art
is an activity of the artist that is possessed by the vision of perfection. It
is an effort to produce product of their inward spiritual experience.
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